Timeline for Gauss's views on pure mathematics
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| Apr 23, 2012 at 1:09 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | I haven't spoken to him lately, so I don't know what he thought. When I was writing my answer, Disq. Arith. did come to mind as a possible counterexample, but I think that in pre computer age, arithmetic was a practical pursuit (by understanding more structure, you could maybe perform computations faster, solve equations more efficiently, etc, etc). Just a guess. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 0:40 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | Did he really view, say, his Disquisitiones are something not for art's sake? | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 23:13 | history | answered | Igor Rivin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |