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Werke. Band I-XII. (Collected works. Vol. I-XII). Reprint of the 1863–1874 original. (Werke. Band I-XII.) (German) Zbl 0924.01032

Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, not consec. pag. (1973).
This is a reprint of the well-known collected works of C. F. Gauß, originally published between 1863 and 1874, with reprints of Volumes 1-5 appearing between 1870 and 1880. Volume 7 seq. were edited by M. Brendel under the general direction of Felix Klein, who had become professor at Göttingen in 1886 and took great interest in the rediscovery and inspection of Gauß’s scientific estate. As more and more material came to light, the scope and arrangement of the planned edition had to be altered repeatedly – in fact, neither Klein nor Brendel lived to see its completion. Due to its complicated history (on which Klein reported regularly in Nachr. König. Gesellsch. Wiss. Göttingen and Math. Ann. between 1898 and 1922), the later volumes contain many supplements and additions to material printed in earlier ones, so that a general index would be very desirable. One had been prepared but due to World War II its publication did not take place. In a way, the ten essays on Gauß’s investigations in various disciplines, printed in the second parts of Volumes 10 and 11, may serve as a temporary substitute; in a way they are much more: “Materialien für eine wissenschaftliche Biographie von Gauß”, under which title the preliminary versions of many of them had been published by Klein and Brendel in eight issues between 1911 and 1920. When the present reprint was made, it was unfortunately overlooked that Volume 2 in its 2nd edition of 1876 had been somewhat enlarged by Schering: The tables on pages 484-495 were spread out (without change of contents) on pages 484-496, additional material was added on pp. 497-518, and Schering’s “Bemerkungen” as well as the table of contents (formerly pp. 496-504, now pp. 519-528) were properly adjusted. Gauß’s Werke contains only a minute selection of his vast scientific correspondence. A good deal of it had been published in separate editions and at present is being reprinted by the same publisher (Briefwechsel: Gauß-H. C. Schumacher, 6 vols. Esch, Altona, 1860 (1975; Zbl 0516.01023); Briefwechsel: Gauß-F. W. Bessel, Engelmann, Leipzig, 1880 (1975; Zbl 0516.01021); Briefwechsel: Gauß-W. Bolyai, Teubner, Leipzig, 1899 (1987; Zbl 0639.01026); Briefwechsel: Gauß-H. W. M. Olbers, 2 vols., Springer, Berlin, 1900 (Olms, Hildesheim, 1976; Zbl 0516.01022); Briefwechsel: Gauß-C. L. Gerling, Elsner, Berlin, 1927 (1975; Zbl 0301.01005).

MSC:

01A75 Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics

Keywords:

Felix Klein
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