Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

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Disquisitiones Arithmeticae is a foundational 1801 treatise on number theory that systematically developed the subject and introduced many of its central concepts and methods.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
mathematical treatise
non-fiction book
number theory work
author Carl Friedrich Gauss
countryOfOrigin Holy Roman Empire
describedAs foundational treatise on number theory
discusses Diophantine equations
composition of forms
cyclotomic equations
prime numbers
quadratic non-residues
quadratic residues
representation of numbers by quadratic forms
field mathematics
genre scientific literature
hasInfluencedPerson André Weil
David Hilbert
Ernst Kummer
Leopold Kronecker
Richard Dedekind
hasLatinTitle Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
hasPart Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
influenced 19th-century mathematics
algebraic number theory
modern number theory
introducedConcept Legendre symbol notation refinement
congruence modulo n
mainSubject number theory
notableFor classification of quadratic forms
development of quadratic reciprocity
introduction of congruence notation
systematic development of number theory
theory of binary quadratic forms
work on cyclotomic fields
originalLanguage Latin
publicationCentury 19th century
publicationYear 1801
titleLanguage Latin
translatedInto English
French
German

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Gauss’s lemma (number theory) ("Gauss’s Disquisitiones Arithmeticae")
appearsIn
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
hasLatinTitle
construction of the regular 17-gon with straightedge and compass ("Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae")
isDescribedIn
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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