I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds,...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds,...

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...

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...

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know...

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know...

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...

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...

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be...

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be...

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...

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two...

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two...

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...

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of...

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of...

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...

God does arithmetic.

God does arithmetic.

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...

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...

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says...

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says...