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- From: tordm@vana (Tord Malmgren)
- Subject: Re: Did Gauss ever say ...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.203632.21234@kth.se>
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- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden
- References: <1992Aug17.172858.3795@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:36:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.172858.3795@hubcap.clemson.edu>, steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) writes:
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- >Bartlett's Familar Quotations give Gauss credit for the statement
- >"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."
- >I heard anecdotally that he also said "And number theory is the queen
- >of mathematics."
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- not a reference, but I heard he made the statement "Arithmetics is the Queen
- of Mathematics"....
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