I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two hal…

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ✨ Letter to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on May 14, 1826. Calculus Gems. Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
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