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
   
Carl Friedrich Gauss   Name:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Type:
Mathematician
Nationality:
German
Birth:
April 30, 1777
Death:
February 23, 1855
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