Gauss Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. — Albert Einstein
• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein
• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
• 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 crib. — Bill Gosper
• For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
• The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
• Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was… — Rene Dubos
• 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 history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as… — Albert Einstein

Who Wrote These Gauss Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Gauss Quotes as follows:

• 2 Gauss Quotes by W. W. Rouse Ball
• 2 Gauss Quotes by Albert Einstein
• 1 Gauss Quote by Nicholas Murray Butler
• 1 Gauss Quote by Felix Klein
• 1 Gauss Quote by Edward Charles Titchmarsh
• 1 Gauss Quote by Bill Gosper
• 1 Gauss Quote by Farkas Bolyai
• 1 Gauss Quote by Rene Dubos