Letter to Farkas Bolyai, on his son János Bolyai's 1832 publishings on non-Euclidean geometry.
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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

What It Means

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

About Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist.