Autres citations de Carl Friedrich Gauß:
"Les charmes enchanteurs de cette sublime science ne se décèlent dans toute leur beauté qu'à ceux qui ont le courage de l'approfondir." / "The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
"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."
"Es ist nicht das Wissen, sondern das Lernen, nicht das Besitzen, sondern das Erwerben, nicht das Dasein, sondern das Hinkommen, was den größten Genuss gewährt." / "Ce n'est pas la connaissance, mais l'apprentissage, pas la possession, mais ce qui y mène, qui donne le plus grand plaisir." / "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"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."
"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."
"Die Mathematik ist die Königin der Wissenschaften, und die Arithmetik ist die Königin der Mathematik. / La mathématique est la reine des sciences et l'arithmétique est la reine des mathématiques." / "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations, she is entitled to first rank."
"There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein."
"Une fois que j'ai éclairci et résolu un problème, je m'en éloigne pour retourner dans l'obscurité." / "When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
"Man darf nicht das, was uns unwahrscheinlich und unnatürlich erscheint, mit dem verwechseln, was absolut unmöglich ist. / Il ne faut pas confondre ce qui nous paraît improbable et contre nature avec ce qui est absolument impossible."
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Leonhard Euler est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/030123/eip1-0
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