Gauss Quotes in Proof
CATHERINE: […] Later a mutual friend told [Gauss] the brilliant young man was a woman.
He wrote to her: “A taste for the mysteries of numbers is excessively rare, but when a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without a doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents, and superior genius.”
(Now self-conscious) I memorized it…
Gauss Quotes in Proof
CATHERINE: […] Later a mutual friend told [Gauss] the brilliant young man was a woman.
He wrote to her: “A taste for the mysteries of numbers is excessively rare, but when a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without a doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents, and superior genius.”
(Now self-conscious) I memorized it…
