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When I heard this story it was about Gauss. And I looked it up- Yes, the same possibly apocryphal story is on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
by fingerlocks 7y ago
When I heard this story it was about Gauss.
And I looked it up- Yes, the same possibly apocryphal story is on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
- vidarh 7y agoInteresting. Not surprised this is the kind of story people might have adapted rather freely to sound more familiar to a local audience...