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Numbers Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
- It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and…
- The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the…
- [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless…
- Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter…
- The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the…
- We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we…
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage