General Investigations of Curved Surfaces

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Recently the eighth volume of Gauss''s Works has appeared. This contains on pages 408 — 442 the paper which Gauss wrote out, but did not publish, in 1825. This paper may be called the New General Investigations of C...