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Old 18-10-2009, 01:03 PM
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Did you know that when Gauss’s servant came into his study to inform him that his wife was dying, he replied, “tell her to wait a moment-I’m in the middle of something”? Did you know that Riemann didn’t die of Tuberculosis, he committed suicide; believing his theorems were leading science down a dead-end he fell into depression?
Riemann commit suicide? That's news to me.

Gauss was supposedly asked what was his greatest mathematical discovery, to which he replied the brilliant mind of his pupil Riemann.

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