Friedrich
Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist who contributed a
great deal to the field of science. He was popular for Gauss law which gave the
relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source.
He was also
known for his continued fraction which was derived from hypergeometric
functions, and other notable achievements which are too many to put here. The
unit of magnetic field (B) is named after Gauss.
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Here are some
of his quotes when he was alive:
“It is not
knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting
there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
“The
enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the
courage to go deeply into it.”
“When I
have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to
go into darkness again.”
“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.”
“When a
philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says
something that is not trivial then it is false.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The
problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving
the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and
useful in arithmetic.”
“It may be
true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific
shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true
of every other exclusive occupation.”
Have a wonderful week and a progressive month
ahead.
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Quotes for the Week: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)