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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Age: 77 †
Born: 1777
Born: April 30
Died: 1855
Died: February 23
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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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 my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess to thy laws my services are bound.
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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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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, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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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 well have deserved an honorary degree.
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.
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