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- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 12:16:54 MST
- From: Hans DeBano <KGHDB@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92310.121654KGHDB@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Who are our best mathematicians?
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- >> baez@ucrmath.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
- > choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
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- >> When asked how he was so good at mathematics, Gauss reputedly said "I just
- >> think about it all the time." With the emphasis, of course, on ALL.
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- > All in all, "think" is quite vague. Is there an algorithm being followed
- > at least some of the time? Does Gauss hop from idea to idea? Does he
- > freak out and spend all day every day on a problem?
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- Actually, it's been awhile since I've seen anything substantive from Gauss.
- Is he on sabbatical this year?
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