Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index.
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Translator's foreword -- Ancestry and environment -- Childhood -- The first university years -- Astronomy -- Marriage and academic advancement -- Observational errors and the calculus of probabilities -- Geodetic measurements -- Curved surfaces -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Gauss's work in physics -- Function theory and arithmetical residues -- Personal facts about Gauss.