"Euler proves you can be a great mathematician even if you calculate a lot. Gauss was good at calculating too, but kept it hidden as if ashamed".
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Great geometry moment: M_{1,1}=H/SL(2,Z) described as "toothpaste tube"
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According to the eminent mathematician-historian Jeremy Gray, "[Gauss] himself said that many of his best discoveries were made at the end of lengthy calculations, and much of his work on elliptic functions moves in a sea of formulae with an uncanny sense of direction."
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Gray adds that many great mathematicians had an almost eerie knack of thinking in formulae. "One is struck as often by the technical power of great mathematicians as by their profundity. Nonetheless, some mathematicians have the ability more than others."
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