Scharlau W., Opolka H., Bühler W.K., Cornell G. From Fermat to Minkowski: Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development

N.-Y.: Springer, 1985. — 184 p.Tracing the story from its earliest sources, this book celebrates the lives and work of pioneers of modern mathematics: Fermat, Euler, Lagrange, Legendre, Gauss, Fourier, Dirichlet and more. Includes an English translation of Gauss's 1838 letter to Dirichlet.The Beginnings
Fermat
Euler
Lagrange
Legendre
Gauss
Fourier
Dirichlet
From Hermite to Minkowski
A Preview of Reduction Theory
Appendix