Gauss and the algebra of his time
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1992
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Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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Following a brief biography of Gauss, the author discusses Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra and Chapter VII of the Disquisitiones, devoted to the cyclotomic equation xn −1 = 0. The name “Weber” is misspelled.
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Curso de Conferencias sobre Historia de la Matemática en el Siglo XIX (4. 1996. Madrid.)