Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

About “Disquisitiones Arithmeticae”

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae is a textbook on number theory written in Latin by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1798, when he was 21, and published in 1801, when he was 24. The book had a revolutionary impact on number theory by making the field rigorous and systematic, and it laid the foundation for modern number theory. Gauss gathered and unified results from mathematicians such as Fermat, Euler, Lagrange, and Legendre, while also introducing his own original and significant contributions to the field. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)