You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! Carl Friedrich Gauss More Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss More Quotes From Carl Friedrich Gauss I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematical work littles God does arithmetic. Carl Friedrich Gauss does arithmetic god