Article ID: CBB000932086

Reading Gauss in the Computer Age: On the U.S. Reception of Gauss's Number Theoretical Work (1938--1989) (2009)

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Abstract C.F Gauss's computational work in number theory attracted renewed interest in the twentieth century due to, on the one hand, the edition of Gauss's Werke, and, on the other hand, the birth of the digital electronic computer. The involvement of the U.S. American mathematicians Derrick Henry Lehmer and Daniel Shanks with Gauss's work is analysed, especially their continuation of work on topics as arccotangents, factors of n 2 + a 2, composition of binary quadratic forms. In general, this strand in Gauss's reception is part of a more general phenomenon, i.e. the influence of the computer on mathematics and one of its effects, the reappraisal of mathematical exploration.

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Authors & Contributors
Corry, Leo
Goldstein, Catherine
Feferman, Solomon
Albers, Donald J.
Scalambro, Elena
Terracini, Lea
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Computer science
Philosophy of mathematics
Computers and computing
Logic
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Ancient
Places
United States
India
England
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Turin (Italy)
Russia
Institutions
Princeton University
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