Disquisitiones arithmeticae

Gauss, Carl Friedrich
In commiss. apud Gerh. Fleischer, jun, Lipsiae, 1801
114. This work, the first textbook on algebraic number theory, is important for its demonstration of the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, that every composite number can be expressed as a product of prime numbers and that this representation is unique.
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114. This work, the first textbook on algebraic number theory, is important for its demonstration of the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, that every composite number can be expressed as a product of prime numbers and that this representation is unique.