A quotation by Heinrich Tietze

The story was told that the young Dirichlet had as a constant companion all his travels, like a devout man with his prayer book, an old, worn copy of the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Gauss.
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

JOC/EFR February 2006

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