Theory Attracts Practice As The Magnet Attracts

Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

To The Distracting Occupations Belong Especially My Lecture Courses Which I Am Holding This Winter For The First Time, And Which Now Cost Much More Of My Time Than I Like. Meanwhile I Hope That The Second Time This Expenditure Of Time Will Be Much Less, Otherwise I Would Never Be Able To Reconcile Myself To It, Even Practical (astronomical) Work Must Give Far More Satisfaction Than If One Brings Up To B A Couple More Mediocre Heads Which Otherwise Would Have Stopped At A.

The Enchanting Charms Of This Sublime Science Reveal Only To Those Who Have The Courage To Go Deeply Into It.

You Know That I Write Slowly. This Is Chiefly Because I Am Never Satisfied Until I Have Said As Much As Possible In A Few Words, And Writing Briefly Takes Far More Time Than Writing At Length.

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.