Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of…

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank. ✨ Gauss zum Gedächtniss. Book by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, 1856.
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Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank. ✨ Gauss zum Gedächtniss. Book by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, 1856.

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