To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
Carl Friedrich GaussAbout author
- Author's profession: Mathematician
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: April 30, 1777
- Died: February 23, 1855
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