Gauss and Newton just gave up. Historically, it's a very common response. Creating is easier, and more gratifying, than explaining.
His principal passion, though, was for investigation. His work consumed orders of magnitude more of his time than his polemical activities.
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Gauss really is a tragic figure. Had his beloved wife survived, he might have become a vastly more optimistic, open-hearted man.
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Johannes Brahms wrote his Alto Rhapsody almost fifteen years after Gauss' death; but it might be Gauss' epitaph.http://bit.ly/2ya9aQb
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