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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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- Subject: Gauss (was: Erdos number
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 15:44:47 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- >Here's another question I've always wondered about: what is Gauss's Erdos
- >number?
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- >It certainly makes sense to ask such a question, since coauthorship can
- >extend into the past as well as the future. The answer might be trivial,
- >because it is my __impression__ that coauthorship was rare until relatively
- >recently. Does anyone know offhand whether Gauss ever coauthored a paper?
- >(For that matter, where can one find a list of his publications? Relatively
- >short, given his motto.)
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- His collected works, apparently 12 volumes, although some of the "volumes"
- are bound in more than one physical book.
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- Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss Werke ... Herausgegeben von der K. Gesellschaft der
- Wissenschaften zu G?ottingen. [G?ottingen, Gedruckt in der Dieterichschen
- Universit?atsdruckerei (W.F. Kaestner)] 1870-19 v. tables, diagrs. 28 x 23
- cm.
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