The more conventional-minded you are, the more it must seem to you that it's always safe to express your opinions.
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Yes, that's true. And likewise with Gauss. He left vast amounts of work unpublished, mostly because he could imagine no one reading it.
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But also because it was simply too much work to put so many subtle arcana into a form capable of satisfying his painstaking perfectionism.
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I recommend Dunnington's biography. Gauss never really recovered from the loss, in childbirth, of Johanna, the one great love of his life.
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I just ordered a copy. Thank you.
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The accounts I've read attribute spitefulness to newton's reticence to publish. Is that true. Gauss seems more hopeless than spiteful.
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