How long does it take to read Disquisitiones Arithmeticae?
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl Friedrich Gauss takes about 12 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1801. 668 pages, about 183,700 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Translated from the 2d ed. of 1870, edited by F.C.J. Schgsa ering.
Subjects: Number theory, Theory of Numbers, Nombres, Théorie des, Zahlentheorie
