A note on Article 36 in Gauss's \textit{Disquisitiones}. A ramificated story in the margin of the re-writing of Section II

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Authors Maarten Bullynck

Publication date 10 August 2007

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1170347818

zbMATH Keywords

C. F. Hindenburgmodular arithmetics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of number theory (11-03)

Review text

Article 36 of the \textit{Disquisitiones Arithmeticae} of Gauss treats the solution to certain systems of modular equations. Since the problem is relevant to the calculation of the date of Easter it is not surprising that there is a substantial history surrounding it. This note mentions the work of J. H. Lambert, J. Bernoulli, and C. F. Hindenburg. The latter's work on this subject was rediscovered in the 1950s in connection with computer algorithms. This is a sample from the author's PhD thesis.

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