More from Carl Friedrich Gauss

  1. It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it…
  2. I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
  3. Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
  4. If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
  5. I will add that I have recently received from Hungary a little paper on non-Euclidean geometry in which I rediscover all my own ideas and r…
  6. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of …
  7. To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which …
  8. There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching eth…

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