"So intimate is the union between Mathematics and Physics that probably by far the larger part of the accessions to ou…"

"If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighte…"

"We must confine ourselves to what we may term the great highways of the science; and... we must wholly pass by many o…"

"The problem of the direct determination of the primitive roots of a prime number is one of the 'cruces' of the Theory…"

"'Legendre's Law of Quadratic Reciprocity' ... is ...the most important general truth in the science of integral numbe…"

"The first demonstration (Disq. Arith., Arts. 125-145) which is presented by Gauss in a form very repulsive to any but…"

"Though not a poet or creative genius, he was... possessed of greater natural abilities than any one else whom I have …"

"In those days he was almost equally a lover of Classics and Mathematics. ...Even in the last years of his life he was…"

"His mathematical speculations could have been shared by a very few, not more than two or three, of his contemporaries…"

"He was very desirous to promote the interests of Natural Science in Oxford, and was in favour of some measure which w…"