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  Gauss memorial in Brunswick Pauca sed matura. (Few, but ripe.) ~Carl F. Gauss, His motto. He would limit his publications to...

  Illustration from "On the forms of plane quartics", by Ruth Gentry Suppose a contradiction were to be found in the axiom...

  Durer Perspective My mother said, "Even you, Paul, can be in only one place at one time." Maybe soon I will be relieved of...

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first f...