%0 Book Section %T Gauss and the algebra of his time publisher Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales %D 1992 %U 84-87125-26-3 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60672 %X 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. %~