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Other Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
- 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…
- 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…
- It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is…
- To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly…
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