"Essai sur la theory de nombre" (English: Essai sur la theory de nombre)

Japanese: 《Essai sur la theorie de nombre》(英語表記)Essaisurlatheoriedenombre
"Essai sur la theory de nombre" (English: Essai sur la theory de nombre)

…In the 18th century, in addition to Euler, J.L. Lagrange, Legendre and others also studied the theory of indeterminate equations and continued fractions. Legendre summarized the results of number theory known up to that point in his book Essai sur la théorie de nombre, from which the name number theory was derived. In 1801, Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae was published, and number theory went from being a collection of knowledge to becoming a systematic field of mathematics. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Essai sur la théorie de nombre" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…18世紀には,オイラー以外にもJ.L.ラグランジュ,ルジャンドルらが,不定方程式や連分数の理論を中心に研究した。ルジャンドルは,それまでに知られていた整数論の結果を《Essai sur la theorie de nombre》という著書にまとめたが,この書名から整数論という名称がでてきた。 1801年にはガウスの《数論研究Disquisitiones arithmeticae》が出版され,整数論は,それ以前の知識の集積という状態から体系的な数学の一分野になった。…

※「《Essai sur la theorie de nombre》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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