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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German Mathematician

Born: Apr 30, 1777

Died: Feb 23, 1855

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Related authors: Abraham Robinson Alexander Grothendieck David Hilbert Felix Klein Georg Cantor Max Born Richard Courant

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Knowledge Learning Possession Greatest Getting Which Act Grants Enjoyment

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 takes far more time than writing at length. Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Darkness Exhausted Go Subject Order Again Turn Then Away

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Other Mathematicians Shoulders Stand Each

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

Time Long Long Time Results Had Know How Am Arrive Them

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reality Space Humility Our Minds We Cannot Must Purely Admit Properties Outside Cannot While Product Prescribe Number

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss

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