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.

Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage...

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage...

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work......

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work......

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent...

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent...

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but...

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but...

God does arithmetic.

God does arithmetic.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry...

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry...

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in...

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in...

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of...

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of...

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into...

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into...

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation...

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation...

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet...

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet...

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in...

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in...

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but...

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but...

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until...

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until...

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I...

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I...

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by...

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by...

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to...

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to...