Bases Quote by Albert Einstein

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about…

— Rene Dubos

“Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the particular types of curved geometry defined…

— John D. Barrow

“The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is…

— Albert Einstein

The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered…

— John von Neumann

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels…

— G.H. Hardy

“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician…

— Niels Henrik Abel

If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make)…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his…

— Bill Gosper

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation...…

— Proclus