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Carl Friedrich Gauss: collected works
Original-language LaTeX editions and modern English and German translations of Gauss’s collected works, with reader PDFs and editable build sources. The full corpus remains unfinished; the coverage below identifies the available editions.
Read in translation: English collection — 1100 pages · German collection — 1133 pages
Original-language editions
| Volume | Pages | Coverage | Read | Editable source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 414 | Historical Volume I, including Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, additamenta, numerical tables, manuscript appendix and editorial remarks. | LaTeX | |
| II | 601 | Historical Volume II, including arithmetic works, historical notes and eight editable mathematical figure sources. | LaTeX | |
| III | 542 | Historical Volume III, including analysis, historical notes and six editable sources for its mathematical plates and figures. | LaTeX | |
| IV | 560 | Historical Volume IV: probability, observation error, annuities, geometry, geodesy, coordinate catalogues, measurement records, correspondence and historical errata. | LaTeX | |
| V | 421 | Selected complete writings on attraction, mechanics, fluids, magnetism, potential theory, dioptrics and mathematical physics. This is not the complete volume. | LaTeX | |
| VI | 919 | Historical content of the supplied 1874 collected volume through printed page 664 and the printer imprint. | LaTeX | |
| VII | 173 | Historical titles, Praefatio, Contenta and complete Liber I and the opening of Liber II, articles 1–130; Volume VII remains partial. | LaTeX | |
| VIII | 440 | Historical Volume VIII: nine divisions, editorial remarks, errata, contents and publisher advertisement. | LaTeX |
Volumes I–IV, VI and VIII cover the supplied collected volumes. Volume V contains selected complete works. Volume VII contains the historical opening, all four sections of the first book of Theoria motus, and the opening of its second book, through article 130. Articles 131 onward, the tables and later material remain outside that reader. Scope, source editions and qualified readings are described in the original-language guide.
English and German translations
The current translations contain complete Volume I and the Volume II texts through its historical contents and imprint. Volume III contains the historical title matter and the complete 1799 dissertation, Articles 1–24, all ten historical footnotes, the closing October 1797 statement and all four figures in editable LaTeX. Gauss’s discussion of earlier proofs, geometric proof and concluding alternative argument retain their formulations and qualifications. Its originally German title matter is rendered in modern German in the German reader, with the historical German and Latin source bodies and editable figures supplied separately. The complete second proof of 1815 follows, with its title, Articles 1–20 and both historical footnotes. Volume II retains its selection designation; a complete-volume assembly claim is not made. The rest of the requested translation corpus remains unfinished.
| Edition | English | German |
|---|---|---|
| Collected reader | ||
| Volume I | ||
| Volume II selection | ||
| Volume III: first two complete proofs | PDF, 55 pages | PDF, 57 pages |
Editable translation package · Translation scope, sources and terminology
Editable editions
Browse original-language sources or English and German sources. Each volume retains its build inputs and accompanying notices. The downloadable packages contain the sources corresponding to the linked readers. Text, mathematics, tables and included mathematical drawings are editable LaTeX; historical portraits are images. Modern fonts and reflow represent content rather than historical type identity.
Authorship and sources
Carl Friedrich Gauss is the author of the historical mathematical text. Historical editors, correspondents and contributors retain their named credits. Original-language text is AI-transcribed, with AI-produced source comparisons and typesetting; the English and German texts are AI-translated. Exact model credits and source versions remain in the accompanying editions and guides. No human or independent review is claimed.
The translation guide credits H. Maser; James Caddall Morehead and Adam Miller Hiltebeitel; Paul Taylor and Bernard Leak; and the other named terminology references for their stated roles. See the full scholarly credits and citation metadata. AI work does not replace historical or inherited human authorship.
These editions are freely available for study and teaching.
The original-language publication and English/German edition in the manuscript collection remain available as edition provenance.
Corresponding English and German edition in the manuscript collection: collected readers and editable sources.