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Originally Posted by Nesti
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?
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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.
Steven