Leibniz, Herbart, Riemann – The Lives of Ideas

When I looked recently at Riemann’s famous lecture On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry, I gave some attention to this remark:

besides some very short hints on the matter given by Privy Councillor Gauss in his second memoir on Biquadratic Residues, in the Göttingen Gelehrte Anzeige, and in his Jubilee-book, and […]