"In the last two months I have been……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations."
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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