"A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []"
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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57 Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
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