Tangent: I was wrong about E. T. Bell's quote about Gauss: the page (229–230) discusses both: https://archive.org/details/menofmathematics0000bell/page/229/mode

Tangent: I was wrong about E. T. Bell's quote about Gauss: the page (229–230) discusses both: https://archive.org/details/menofmathematics0000bell/page/229/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/menofmathematics0000bell/page/22... The quote about the fox does not seem to be in Bell's book, but some stuff about it here: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/3610/what-is-the-original-source-for-abels-quote-about-gausshe-is-like-the-fox-wh https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/3610/what-is-the-ori...