I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almos… - Carl Friedrich Gauss
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almos…
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would… - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would…
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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 in… - Carl Friedrich Gauss
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 in…
In mathematics there are no true controversies. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
In mathematics there are no true controversies.
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! - Carl Friedrich Gauss
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly … - Carl Friedrich Gauss
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly …
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
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