There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
Carl Friedrich GaussThe enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich GaussWhen a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Carl Friedrich GaussComplete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.
Carl Friedrich Gauss