"Everything Gauss writes is abomination, as it is so obscure that it is almost impossible to understand it."

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August Leopold Crelle, reported by Abel as "Alt hvad Gauss skriver er Gräuel, da det er saa dunkelt at det næsten ikke er mueligt at forstaae det." in a letter to Christopher Hansteen on December 5, 1825.