More from Carl Friedrich Gauss

  1. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
  2. The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.
  3. God does arithmetic.
  4. When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
  5. 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 sense of a mathematician, w…
  6. Gauss liked to call [number theory] 'the Queen of Mathematics'. For Gauss, the jewels in the crown were the primes, numbers which had fasci…
  7. 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 writin…
  8. Armed with his prime number tables, Gauss began his quest. As he looked at the proportion of numbers that were prime, he found that when he…

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