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One Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
- It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have…
- 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…
- In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested…
- It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and…
- I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…
- To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more…
- I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the…
- 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…
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