Article ID: CBB000067476

On Gauss' priority in the discovery of the method of least squares (1996)

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Description On the controversy between Gauss and Legendre.


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Authors & Contributors
Reich, Karin
Schrimpf, Andreas
Waterhouse, William C.
Stigler, Stephen M.
Sheinin, O. B.
Mittler, Elmar
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Perspectives on Science
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Mitteilungen, Gauss- Gesellschaft E.V. Göttingen
Publishers
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Niedersächsische Staats- und Univ.-Bibl.
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Mathematics
Astronomy
Geomagnetism
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Prime numbers
Comets; meteors; meteorites
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Fermat, Pierre de
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Bolyai, Janos (Johann) von
Wiles, Andrew J.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Germany
Greece
Institutions
École Polytechnique, Paris
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