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Gauss seems to have proved lots of (surely publishable) things that he didn't publish. I don't know what his reasons were.
by gjm11 16y ago
Gauss seems to have proved lots of (surely publishable) things that he didn't publish. I don't know what his reasons were.
- ajb 16y agoAccording to Erdos, Gauss was very discouraging to his students, because when they came and told him that they'd proven something, he would tell them he'd proven it years before. from "The man who loved only numbers.' by Paul Hoffman.