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高斯到底干了什么?为什么这么多算法里有他? - 匿各用户的回答 - 知乎 https://www.zhihu.com/question/36329536/answer/300635088 https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts/blob/master/inst/gaussfacts/gaussfacts.csv
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3 Gauss didn’t discover the normal distribution, nature conformed to his will. 267 49
4 Gauss can trisect an angle with a straightedge and compass. 33 8
5 Gauss can get to the other side of a Möbius strip. 269 39
6 “Uncountably Infinite” was a phrase coined to explain the intelligence of Gauss. 53 14
7 There are no Fermat Primes greater than 65,537 because Gauss saw that Fermat was on to something, and well…he put an end to that. 82 8
8 For Gauss, arithmetic is consistent AND complete. 41 5
9 It only takes Gauss 4 minutes to sing “Aleph-Null Bottles of Beer on the Wall”. 175 36
10 When Gauss tells you that he’s lying, he’s telling the truth. 347 25
11 Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. 440 28
13 Gauss did not prove theorems, he simply stared at them until they yielded their solutions. 44 12
14 Occam’s Razor – The principle stating that the explanation of any phenomenon is equal to the explanation that came out of Gauss’ mouth. 23 8
15 Gauss drinks his beer from a Klein bottle. 154 5
16 For Gauss, there are no indefinite integrals. 21 8
17 Gauss once started falling asleep in his complex analysis class. The result…singularities. 29 12
18 Imaginary numbers are simply those that Gauss has not deemed worthy of existence. 33 20
19 The shortest distance between two points is Gauss. 27 13
20 Once, while playing chess, Gauss solved the Knights Problem in six moves. 34 3
21 Gauss is neither a Frequentist nor a Bayesian. For Gauss, the probability is always 1. 26 8
22 Fermat once made Gauss angry. The result - Fermat’s Last Theorem. 440 56
23 In Gauss’ mind, there is no such branch of mathematics as “Number Theory”. This is because he knows it as “Number Facts”. 53 16
24 Gauss can construct transcendental numbers only using a compass. 38 5
25 Parallel lines meet where Gauss tells them to. 173 7
26 Some problems are NP because Gauss doesn't like computers. 67 23
27 Gauss never runs out of room in the margin. 406 17
28 Gauss can write irrationals as the ratio of 2 integers. 36 7
29 Gauss can square the circle and then transform it into the hyper-sphere. 30 4
31 An elegant proof is one line long. Gauss' elegant proofs are one word long. 61 9
32 Gauss doesn't look for roots of equations, they come to him. 57 3
33 There are no theorems, just a list of propositions Gauss allows to be true. 48 13
34 When Gauss integrates he doesn't need to add a constant. 146 74
35 Hilbert put forward 23 unsolved problems because he hadn't properly read Gauss' notebooks. 106 21
36 Gauss knows the topological difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup. 29 6
37 Gauss can divide by zero. 104 62
39 Primes that aren't Gaussian primes get teased. 54 6
40 If Gauss had to walk 100 metres, and half the remaining distance, then half the remaining distance again, and so on, he'd get there. 116 37
41 Erdos believed God had a book of all perfect mathematical proofs. God believes Gauss has such a book. 525 34
42 Gauss has Hilbert hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane. 65 6
43 God does not play dice, unless Gauss promises to let him win once in a while. 184 12
49 Q: What's purple and commutes? A: Whatever Gauss tells us it is. 47 12
50 Gauss never has an underfull hbox (badness 10000) warning. 146 27
51 For gauss, correlation implies causation. 34 18
52 Only gauss knows both the exact location and exact momentum of a particle simultaneously. 92 16
53 One time, Gauss solved the general quintic equation in radicals, but he decided we weren't worthy of the solution. 34 11
54 Gauss can see all 11 dimensions and can create more whenever he wants. 30 11
56 You know that theorem you just proved in your thesis? Gauss already proved it 200 years ago. 179 36
58 Gauss considers infinity as the first non-trivial case in a proof by induction. 159 18
60 There are no postulates, only theorems Gauss believes are unworthy of a proof. 105 38
61 Gauss can vertex color every graph using a greedy algorithm in O(1) time. 24 5
62 Gauss determined the orbit of Ceres with a quick skyward glance one night, but pretended to solve the orbit's eighth degree equation with three observations just to give the rest of us a chance. 45 5
63 Gauss has an Erdos number of -1. 369 39
64 Gauss can take the cross product of a vector and a scalar. 70 26
65 Only Gauss knows whether Schrödinger's cat is dead or alive. 201 33
66 Gauss's law actually states that everything in an enclosed surface has already been proven by Gauss. 110 29
70 Gauss can break RSA, in his head. 59 7
71 Gauss doesn't recognize complex numbers, they're all simple to him. 174 26
74 Watching Riemann fail in proving his famous conjecture, Gauss got so angry that he smashed the unit interval in pieces. The result is nowadays known as the "Cantor Set". 86 17
75 If you prove a theorem and Gauss proves a theorem, Gauss has proven more theorems than you. 34 19
76 Gauss checked the infinity of primes by counting them, starting from the last. 337 44
77 Gauss' open balls include their surface. 21 14
78 Gauss sorts in log n time. 121 8
79 Gauss can let epsilon be less than zero. 269 38
80 Gauss can prove by induction that all horses are of the same color. 72 11
83 Unbounded sequences converge when Gauss is around. 78 7
84 A typical human brain has a magnetic field of 10^-9 to 10^-8 Gauss. The unit Gauss was invented to describe the magnetic field of Gauss' brain. Coincidence? I think not. 121 38
85 Gauss shaves both himself and Bertrand Russell. 240 25
86 Gauss can swap limits and integrals whenever he wants. 50 7
87 Gauss can remove singularities by using Gaussian elimination. 31 8
89 Whenever Gauss was tired, he'd just differentiate his need for sleep until it was back to 0. 34 16
90 Gauss doesn't understand stochastic processes because he can predict random numbers. 42 2
91 Gauss knows a polynomial-time algorithm for 3-SAT. 20 4
92 Hilbert couldn't get a room at Gauss' Grand Hotel...it was booked solid. 95 24
94 Gauss's integers are more awesome and complex than your integers. 27 10
95 Gauss doesn't understand P?=NP. To him, everything is constant time. 65 9
98 Chuck Norris learned from Gauss how to count up to infinity. 79 46
99 Gauss classified the finite groups. When he was finished with the simple ones, there were none left. 40 7
101 Gauss can choose an element in every subset of the real line. 33 4
102 The universe is expanding so that entropy can increase faster than Gauss proves theorems. 79 19
104 The set of theorems Gauss hasn't proved has measure zero. 47 27
105 Let n be your age. Then lim n-> infinity (#{your theorems}/#{Gauss' theorems}) = 0. And Gauss is dead. 63 33
106 Gauss saved the rainforest by omitting "qed" at the end of proofs. 193 51
109 Gauss doesn't understand stochastic processes because he can predict random numbers. 227 21
110 Gauss can invert matrices even if its determinant is zero. 46 15
111 Gauss is the only one who can turn a circle inside out 21 7
112 After reading a Gauss textbook, Maxwell decided to retire and dedicate its life to coffee. 62 10
113 Gauss can differentiate e^x with respect to x down to zero. 49 22
114 Gauss uses the squeeze theorem on oranges whenever he wants juice. 95 10
166 Gauss hotel had room to accommodate all the guests from full Hilbert hotel, and still had rooms for all the reals. 40 14
116 Gauss discovered the magnetic monopole ages ago, he just wanted to see how long it'll take us to find it. 51 16
117 Gauss can take the line integral of a closed path over a gradient vector field and get 1. 28 5
118 Gauss counted all the ordinals 27 2
120 Some series diverge because Gauss doesn't consider them worthy of summing up. 216 32
121 Nature abhors singularities. But even it had to make way for Gauss to exist. 52 5
122 Gauss doesn't need any axioms to prove theorems. 111 23
123 If Gauss had published all his discoveries, there would be nothing left to prove. 92 18
124 Gauss can walk through Konigsberg crossing its bridges once and only once 316 18
127 Gauss can escape from a black hole. 39 13
138 Gauss only took breaks from proving theorems to invent new algebras. 36 10
130 Gauss knows Alice and Bob's shared secret. 358 33
169 Gauss created an engine more efficient than Carnot's 100 2
132 Gauss can find a perfect cube larger than 8 in Fibonacci Sequence. 24 1
135 The fact that Gauss is the greatest mathematician since antiquity is actually a theorem - A theorem proven by none other than one Carl Friedrich Gauss. 63 30
136 Gauss can create electric field inside a conductor. 28 4
137 Gauss can colour any given map such that no two adjacent areas share a colour, using only three colours. 20 10
139 There is a 1:1 correspondence between the number of theorems Gauss has proved and the real numbers. 99 29
141 Gauss had to invent a new number to count his proofs: Aleph-Gauss. 80 29
142 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Only Gauss can create theorems out of nowhere! 145 14
171 Gauss considers using more than one digit a waste of time and thus writes numbers in base infinite. 112 22
168 Gaussian Elimination is actually a secret martial arts technique. 194 42
146 Gauss can read the Zodiac 340 cipher as in plain text, he just didn't publish the solution in order to save fun for us people. 13 6
148 Gauss can walk beyond the speed of light, that's why we cannot see him, and why we think he has died. 39 33
149 Gauss had already known the website 'Gauss Facts', so he saved his time for an autobiography. 34 11
150 Gauss can measure the total Entropy in the universe 37 4
153 Gauss proved Goldbach's Conjecture by checking each case. 47 9
154 For Gauss, the limit always exists. 29 5
155 Gauss can shave with Occam's razor. 187 13
156 Gauss can solve the halting problem. 34 6
157 Gauss solved the Twin Prime Conjecture by counting all of the Twin Primes until he found infinitely many. 32 3
159 Gauss can colour any map using only one colour. 163 21
160 Gauss's fundamental group is the monster group. 17 5
161 Gauss didn't need to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. He got the right theory from the start. 61 14
162 When Carl Friedrich Gauss adds one, his number doesn't increase, all other numbers become smaller. 249 18
163 Gauss developed Fractal Theory when he had broccoli for first time, but considered it obvious enough and didn't publish. 107 22
164 Gauss gets definite values of indefinite integrals 31 10
167 Gauss can calculate 100! only using one "int" variable in C. 25 19
172 It's no secret Gauss was a child prodigy; his mother's womb inspired the divergence theorem. 38 5
173 Gauss proved an omnipotent God since writing Q.E.D on a mirror. 39 14
175 All theorems were once called "The Gauss Theorem", however Gauss allowed others to take credit so it wouldn't confuse everyone else. 134 29
176 Gauss can solve a Rubik's cube in 3 moves. 37 10
177 "Gauß's theorem" is a pleonasm. 30 12
178 When Gauss was thirsty, he used Banach–Tarski paradox to get more orange juice. 288 12
180 Gauss can construct a pair of orthogonal Latin squares of order 6. 19 3
182 Computer told Gauss the Eight-queens Puzzle has 92 answers,then Gauss showed it the 93rd one 27 8
184 Gauss knows explicit well-orderings of the reals. 45 1
185 Erdös used to say that he knew 37 different proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. Gauss knew 37 different proofs of the Riemann hypothesis, which he posed as an exercise to Bernhard Riemann while on his deathbed. 77 4
186 Each of Gauss's fingerprints contains a proof of quadratic reciprocity. 52 5
187 As a child, Gauss was instructed to sum the numbers from 1 to 100. He did this by summing the infinite series and then subtracting off every integer greater than 100, one by one, in his head. 295 43
189 Gauss can comb the hair on a bowling ball. 44 9
191 Gauss can recite all of pi - backwards. 287 64
193 Gauss has observed the Higgs Boson. 49 15
195 Gauss proved induction using a proof by induction. 86 28
197 Gauss proved that the continuum hypothesis is not independent of his choice. 83 3
199 They say Riemann is the name Gauss used to publish some unsatisfied papers. 115 24
226 Gauss can calculate the moments of the Cauchy-Lorentz distribution. 28 1
201 Gauss knows if the continuum hypothesis is true or false. 34 6
202 Andrew Wiles found Gauss's old school book, and copied off it to give us Fermat's Last Theorem 47 23
204 Gauss can construct a regular 17-gon...using only a ruler. 51 8
206 When Gauss constructs a gray code, it's whatever colour he wants it to be. 39 5
212 Gauss found BB(6), but his publisher refused to print it. 16 3
215 Gauss can guard any art gallery all by himself. 105 8
216 Gauss can prove two theorems with one proof. 144 9
352 Gauss used induction with the real numbers. And it worked 57 31
218 For Gauss finding a solution is easier than checking it, NP 17 8
219 Gauss can prove axioms. 168 42
220 For Gauss, non-correlation implies independence. 66 1
221 Ink from Gauss's pen can cure cancer. Too bad he does all his calculations in his head and never uses a pen. 137 16
223 Gauss can perform any algorithm in a polynomial number of Gauss-steps. 18 4
227 Gauss knows the question to the answer 42. 24 11
229 Gauss can trisect any angle while closing his eyes. 14 5
371 Gauss finds all Lie algebras simple. 71 5
234 Gauss can calculate the square root of -1 ... with a slide rule. 32 13
235 Gauss invented numerical methods as a service to humanity. There's nothing he can't integrate. 20 8
237 Gauss's watch can tell whether a Turing machine will halt or not. 25 2
240 Gauss once proved an axiom, but he didn't like it. So he disproved it. 230 14
241 Gauss can take an arbitrary loop on the surface of a torus and shrink it to a point. 34 2
242 Gauss doesn't always divide by zero, but when he does, he gets the answer. 35 29
243 Gauss chooses ε < 0. 50 11
244 Guass does not factor numbers, numbers give Gauss their factorization 28 5
315 Gauss was annoyed by the acoustic disturbance while he was working. To reduce it he invented gaussian noise. 29 5
246 Gauss doesn't need to solve the Halting Problem — Turing machines halt whenever Gauss tells them to. 39 3
248 Gauss knows which Turing machines halt, because they have to ask him for permission first. 47 6
251 Gauss once determined whether P = NP, but didn't think it was important enough to publish. 22 13
252 In elementary school when Gauss was asked if he could add 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - ..., he replied it was as easy as a piece of pi. 47 10
256 Gauss can numerically compute a Lesbesgue integral. 24 6
257 Gauss can measure the random quantum fluctuation energy in the fabric of space-time. 13 3
259 Gauss doesn't need to solve the halting problem. Turing Machines halt whenever Gauss tells them to. 18 6
263 At the age of 19, Gauss doubled the cube. But he didn't want us to feel bad, so he pretended he'd only constructed the heptadecagon. 20 8
328 Fermat thought the margin of the book was too small to contain the proof of his Last Theorems. Gauss knows a proof for which it is too large. 185 5
268 For Gauss all knots are trivial. 24 4
269 When Gauss breaks a magnet he ends up with two monopoles 183 7
270 The backward heat equation well-poses itself for Gauss. 10 2
271 Gauss is puzzled by Fourier coefficients. He only ever needs one coefficient, at most. 27 6
272 When Gauss does Gaussian elimination, it takes O(N). If he pivots, it takes O(log(N)). 15 4
273 The empty set is defined as the set of theorems Gauss can't prove. 187 44
274 Gauss always get R-squared = 1. 43 7
276 Gauss referred to mathematics as the "queen of the sciences." Guess who is the king? 85 42
353 Gauss decides if a unique factorization domain exists or not depending on how many ways he chooses to factor an element. 41 8
278 The common phrase used by mathematicians,"Let n be an integer", is literally a request to Gauss to allow it to be so. 317 16
280 Gauss once crossed all of Königsberg's 7 bridges while crossing every bridge only once. 55 5
282 "I couldn't find a counterexample" is an admissible mathematical proof if it's written by Gauss. 181 25
330 Gauss can write out A(6,3) in decimal on an imaginary chalkboard in his head. 20 9
331 When Gauss creates a spanning tree, he just draws one line that goes through all nodes. 53 3
286 Gauss doesn't sort, he raises one eyebrow, and arrays sort themselves out in constant time, and throw themselves at his feet, crying for mercy. 171 19
289 Gauss can find every solution for all Navier-Stokes equations, with or without singularities. 26 1
290 After seven and a half million years of calculation, Deep Thought gave up and asked Gauss for the answer. 81 14
370 The monster group is scared of Gauss. 165 2
293 Gauss wrote Flatlands to explain the universe to God. 30 14
294 Gauss can both pet and not pet Schrödinger's cat at the same time. 72 13
295 When Gauss wants to solve a problem in R^4, he visualizes R^n and then makes n=4. 75 17
297 Gauss checkmated Watson in 3 moves using BASIC on an Atari 2600. 29 23
298 Gauss knows an algorithm to compute the class group of any normal variety. 11 0
299 Gauss proved the classification theorem of finite simple groups on less than ten pages. He then decided that his approach was rather obvious and didn't proceed to publish it. 23 8
301 When you integrate, you integrate with respect to Gauss. 67 25
351 Gauss solved the Kobayashi Maru, without cheating. 30 21
303 To iron a shirt, Gauss first applies a diffeomorphism to transform it to a flat piece of fabric. 93 6
304 Gauss can make any knot an unknot. 23 3
305 Gauss once confirmed the Riemann Hypothesis with a combinatorial proof. 36 8
306 Gauss once got lost in a forest. So he added a few edges and reduced the forest to a single tree. 221 7
307 No one respected Riemann until Gauss taught him a trick how to make conditionally convergent series converge to any limit. 23 9
309 Before the Gaussian distribution was invented, every distribution was considered normal. 17 11
332 Gauss can think of three vectors that are an orthonormal basis of R2 58 8
321 To win a bet, Gauss once throw darts uniformly at random onto the real number line and hit only rational numbers. 70 18
314 Gauss is the definition of normal; anything more than two standard deviations away from him is considered an outlier. 38 21
316 Gauss has proven the Hodge Conjecture. With a Spork. 19 6
360 Gauss can run bogosort in constant time. 38 4
334 Gauss disproved Godel's Incompleteness Theorem by exhaustion. 141 6
335 Gauss was once bored on a rainy Thursday night, so using only the nand operator, he re-derived all of modern mathematics. 26 16
367 Gauss once figured out an expression for every real number as a fraction, but he got bored writing them down. The ones he didn't document are now called irrational. 37 22
319 Gauss can differentiate a constant and get a variable. 35 27
336 Order of operations, as we use it today, comes from historians' efforts of looking through Gauss's proofs and deciding which order he performed operations in. 34 24
368 Gauss can smoothly deform a sphere into a torus. 61 4
340 The divergence of a magnetic field is only 0 because Gauss grew tired of silly variables. 24 9
342 Gauss can power a small village for weeks using just the electric field inside of a conductor at equilibrium. 24 6
343 Gauss knows of an efficient way of factoring large numbers into nontrivial primes, but gets such a laugh out of the general agreement of P != NP that he won't tell anybody. 33 19
345 Gauss is an actual oracle for all reduction problems. 31 7
364 Once, Gauss was stumped by a theorem that he couldn't prove. This was enough evidence for Godel. 139 25
365 In mathematics the equivalent of a Nobel Prize is the Fields Medal. It is awarded to those individuals with the best Gauss impression that year. 51 29
366 There are no closed form expressions for roots of degree greater than 5 polynomials because Gauss got bored writing them down. 28 16
373 Gauss knows whether the set of all things that don't contain themselves contains itself. 47 2
374 Gauss once constructed the set of all sets in his head. 50 7
375 Mathematicians often leave proofs as an exercise for the reader; Gauss leaves his proofs as an exercise for God. 155 35
376 Not only does Gauss' general proof of Fermat's Last Theorem use only elementary arithmetic, it uses only minuses. 39 24
377 It was only after Gauss' death that we had the concept of "Largest known prime". Till then, Gauss knew all infinity of them 92 32
378 It was only after Gauss' death that we had the concept of "largest known prime". Until then, Gauss knew all infinity of them. 45 15
379 Gauss can find eigen-vectors of a rotation matrix. 37 25
380 A discovery is just an unpublished invention of Gauss. 112 24
389 Hilbert's problems are a compilation of twenty-three problems Hilbert took from a list of exercises Gauss had left to the reader in one of his manuscripts. 74 17
421 Gauss can recite Graham's number, forwards. 23 4
383 Clay Institute owes Gauss 7000000$ 72 40
384 Actually, Gauss knows the orbit of an Asteroid after only one measurement. 20 12
428 A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer walk into a bar. The bartender says,"Hello, Professor Gauss." 282 17
502 When Gauss enters a tug of war the rope goes perfectly taut 31 3
386 Asking Gauss whether or not a statement is true or false constitutes a rigorous proof 232 7
424 Gauss knows which of Monty Hall's doors to open. 33 17
387 Gauss once created an axiomatic system that was both consistent and complete 53 8
388 When Godel heard that Gauss could prove anything, he asked Gauss to prove the statement "There exists a statement that Gauss cannot prove." gauss proved the statement, but there was still no statement he could not prove. This is how the quantum state was born. 170 37
392 God once said he'd end the world after someone solves the Tower of Hanoi problem containing 64 pegs. Gauss solved it in about a hundred steps just to prove that God was kidding. 91 13
394 Gauss once simultaneously diagonalized all n by n matrices. 64 6
396 Gauss can convert Meters to degrees Celsius. 121 67
404 L'Hôpital's rule was invented because only Gauss can multiply infinity by zero. 42 19
406 Gauss can calculate the solution to the Boolean satisfiability problem in O(1) time. 13 4
407 Gauss can fill a Klein bottle. 118 6
408 Gauss has never lost or even drawn a game of tic tac toe even against the best computer program. 31 12
447 Gauss taught himself to square the circle in second grade. By third grade, he didn't even need the straightedge or compass. By fourth grade, he didn't even need the pencil. By the time he got his first PhD in fifth grade, he didn't even need the circle. 65 13
412 Gauss found inconsistencies in Godel's proof 68 4
441 Gauss can had a 3 colour theorem proof, but liked the colour blue so kept four colours. 41 18
414 All butterflies dream that they are Gauss 21 6
438 Gauss never needs to resort to a Martingale strategy while gambling. He wins every bet. 40 7
418 Gauss once proved that 1+1=2 exhibiting a counterexample for any other case. 56 8
419 Gauss never understood the concept of NP problems because the first feasible solution he uses is always the optimum. 49 8
420 For Gauss, every game is determined... It doesn't matter if it is finite or not... 25 7
422 Riemann stole a proof from Gauss' book, but he couldn't understand it and called it Riemann's hypothesis. 44 19
423 Gauss made the Kessel Run in one parsec. 38 24
430 Gauss has already solved the infinity-body problem. 20 13
431 Gauss once managed to square the circle, using only his fingernails and a piece of chocolate. 27 21
433 Gauss never proved a theorem, they're all lemmas for him. 54 22
434 Gauss doesn't integrate with respect to x, x differentiates with respect to gauss. 89 26
436 Gauss can prove the consistency of the axioms within the system. 38 8
439 Gauss can construct a regular (a+ib)-gon for any a,b in R using just a straight-edge and compass. 38 9
440 Once in his free time, Gauss found about a hundred distinct imaginary numbers on the real line. 30 16
454 Gauss uses home-grown abelian grapes for winemaking. 18 10
456 Gauss uses home-grown abelian grapes for winemaking. 30 8
457 Gauss can draw as many lines as he wants through any point not on a given line parallel to the given line in a plane. 73 5
458 Riemann once said "If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough." Sure, if by finding he meant asking Gauss. 88 3
459 Gauss doesn't have to stand on the shoulders of giants to see further than anyone else. 152 4
444 Gauss proved the parallel postulate using only a straightedge. 30 4
445 Gauss proved that the Mandelbrot Set is locally connected by drawing the boundary by hand. 120 4
446 Gauss can find the cross product of two vectors in any n dimensional space. 36 11
448 Gauss can prove the consistency of ZFC. 51 6
449 For Gauss, continuity implies differentiability. 44 8
485 Gauss can find non-cyclic Abelian groups of order n where n does not have repeating prime factors. 25 5
462 Gauss can understand income tax. 93 14
463 Every cardinal is easily accesible for Gauss. 73 2
464 Gauss manages his personal finance using conditional convergent series so he can get any amount of money he wants. 33 4
466 Gauss can turn a circle inside out, unfortunately he did it once and left it that way and now we can't turn it back. 39 8
467 Gauss can transport a bag of grain, a chicken and a fox over a river even if there is no boat 226 9
468 If you fire an electron at a screen with two slits in it and a Gauss on the other side the electron refuses to go through either slit 116 11
469 A prime number is a number divisible only by one, itself and Gauss 61 21
471 G.Perelman didn't accept Fields medal since he felt it would be unfair for him to take credit for the proof Of Poincare conjecture he found in one of Gauss unpublished notebooks. 96 12
472 Gauss is the only person whom Archimedes allows to disturb his circles 66 3
475 Gauss can solve Hume's problem of induction. 23 4
476 Gauss's mathematical discoveries are certain AND they refer to reality. 60 5
477 Gauss actually won a Nobel Prize in Mathematics. 178 11
478 Gauss can solve problems in time O(0). 53 10
499 Whenever Gauss played tennis, he made sure first to comb all the fur on the ball smoothly. 128 11
483 God does not play dice with the universe, but Gauss does. 116 9
486 Gauss once hurt Kroniker's ego by telling him "Actually, God gave us just the transcendental numbers; the rest are man's approximations". 42 10
487 Gauss used to refer to complex numbers as "Not necessarily real but just as simple" numbers 43 9
492 The Millennium Problems are trivial. That's why Gauss never bothered to prove them - he left them as an exercise for the reader. 64 17
488 There is no Nobel Prizes in Mathematics because Gauss earned them all the first year Nobel was giving them. 77 25
507 Contrary to a common belief, Gauss is actually worth 10,000 Teslas. 34 5
491 Gauss can solve all polynomial equation by radicals... in polynomial time. 25 8
493 What Fermat meant to say was in fact: "(...) I have found a remarkable proof of this fact in Gauss's notebook, but He used wider margins than this book does." 44 15
494 Gauss doesn't understand why some people think P != NP. He can solve anything in constant time. 39 9
495 Gauss can prove theorems by using induction on the reals. 50 13
496 Gauss doesn't walk, he just rotates the Earth below him. 36 14
497 Gauss doesn't do Lagrange multiplers - for him there are no constraints! 76 4
498 "Only two things are infinite, human stupidity and Gauss' intellect , and I'm not sure about human stupidity" - Albert Einstein 76 11
500 Gauss also discovered Galois Theory, but also won a duel, AND got the girl. Take that, Evariste! 70 12
503 Gauss keeps monster sets as pets 48 8
504 Principia Mathematica was Bertrand Russell's best attempt to translate what Gauss originally wrote in a single haiku 105 13
505 Gauss invented the infinite improbability drive 24 13
506 Give Gauss a solid place to stand and he'll move the universe 43 7
508 Gauss actually disproved the clause: "Gauss cannot prove that this clause is true". 59 5
509 Gauss was less Bayesian than Bayes was Gaussian. 10 0
511 Mathematics is invented by Gauss for others to discover. 43 7
657 If Gauss attempts to solve an equation for which there is no solution, mathematics will change to allow one. This is why fractions and irrational, negative and imaginary numbers exist. 76 11
654 Gauss can count until pi with his fingers. 10 4
658 Gauss can fill 75% of the volume of a cubic box using only close-packed spheres. 40 4
615 It is conjectured that a long time ago, Gauss performed an inversion about a small sphere in the universe. Scientists call this the Big Bang theory. 66 7
618 Gauss knows whether P = NP, he just thought it would be more fun if you figured out for yourself. 65 7
617 If G is the set of theorems Gauss proved, then the powerset of G contains less elements than G. 27 12
619 The flaw in Godel's impossibility theorem is that he forgot to account for the existence of Carl Gauss. 40 9
621 Carl Gauss once calculated out every possible outcome of a game of chess. (Hint: every one involves him winning.) 40 8
622 Gauss knows whether the glass is half-full or half-empty. 35 4
623 If Carl Gauss tells you he's lying, you better believe it. 73 2
515 "Only two things are infinite, the human stupidity and Gauss' intellect, and I'm not sure about the human stupidity." - Albert Einstein 68 14
516 On Day One Gauss divided by 0 and thus the universe was created. 9 1
604 Gauss stopped doing mathematics after he wrote proved more than aleph-null theorems, but before he proved aleph-one of them. 68 9
603 Gauss invented the first 64qbit quatum computer 200 years ago, but it slowed down his work... 101 6
606 The halting problem didn't exist until Gauss made a turing machine that halts only when he wants it to. 30 13
607 Gauss can see the color of his own hat. 172 5
608 Gauss can solve Towers of Hanoi in polynomial time. 51 8
609 A real number is constructible with straightedge and compass if and only if Gauss never felt like freehanding it. 35 6
614 When Gauss thinks about The Game he wins. 77 21
612 Gauss can split a bar magnet and produce two magnetic monopoles. 73 5
651 God created the integers. The rest is the work of Gauss. 129 9
650 Gauss classified all finite simple groups in the space Fermat left in the margin. 89 3
648 The third dimension exists because Gauss created it to get gas, water, and power to his three friends' houses. 85 7
659 Mr. and Mrs. Gauss invented the Gaussian copula on their wedding night. 20 14
660 Gauss once chopped up a pea, and reassembled it into a sun. 54 10
719 Gauss once told a man he would beat his face in. The man made the mistake of telling Gauss to prove it. 22 4
918 Gauss knows every digit of the number one... in base pi. 17 8
729 when gauss goes stargazing he sees the end of the universe 11 1
730 Gauss is not troubled by problems, problems are troubled by Gauss. 100 4
732 It's unbelievable that some people compare Gauss to God. I mean, He's cool and all, but he's no Gauss... 24 6
739 Entropy naturally reverses itself around Gauss. It is the universe's way of looking busy when he's around. 30 0
740 There does not exist any finite number n such that n near-sighted policemen could keep Gauss from sneaking into the town. 24 2
742 Carl Gauss can honestly say he's lying. 31 1
743 Gauss once proved a theorem, but he didn't like it. So he disproved it. 41 2
744 The empty set is defined as the set of all the true statements Gauss cannot prove. 106 11
745 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and Gauss' intellect , and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein 34 1
747 “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as the judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of Carl Gauss.” - Albert Einstein 32 5
734 Gauss knows there are no uninteresting numbers, because he knows the interesting thing about each one. 42 3
735 Gauss skips Step 2 of the Feynman problem solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think very hard. 3. Write down the answer. 119 6
894 Gauss can calculate the determinant of a non-square matrix 41 2
919 It's acceptable when Carl Gauss uses circular reasoning. (I know because he told me.) 17 5
896 Gauss is the only person who knows if Schrödinger's cat's still alive - he doesn't need to look to know this 19 4
762 When Hilbert complained that every room in his hotel was full, his friend Gauss did him a favor and found a spot for the next guest. 17 3
763 Gauss wins a car no matter what door he opens. 163 6
782 Gauss proves the well-ordering theorem by glaring at the set in question until it orders itself out of sheer terror. 75 4
822 Black holes are the result of Gauss cutting up stars and reassembling them into peas. 22 2
1079 The actual statement of Godel's incompleteness theorem is that every consistent system cannot prove the existence of Gauss ,and it directly implies the version we know nowadays. 14 6
849 The annihilator of a ring is actually a finisher wrestling move developed by Gauss. 23 4
850 Gauss invented Newton AND Leibniz. 40 16
942 Central Limit Theorem was the excuse God invented to obey Gauss. 22 3
943 Gauss can count to aleph-one. 21 2
913 Gauss knows the momentum and position of everything at all times. 10 3
914 The frost on Gauss' beer glass is Bose–Einstein condensate 28 3
1007 Gauss proved there were no uninteresting numbers...constructively. 31 0
1072 Gauss, only using three sticks whose lenghts are a, b, c, can build a triangle even if a + b < c 20 3
939 Gauss doesn't need to use L'Hopital's Rule. Indiscriminate problems just answer themselves for him. 8 1
940 Gauss is able to draw a logarithmic plot including the origin. 22 3
875 Gauss prefers to work with matrices with an irrational number of entries. 26 0
876 Gauss can make a combination of linearly independent vectors equal 0 (without coefficients of 0) just by brute force. 14 4
1067 At night, theorems sit around the campfire and tell stories about Gauss . 59 3
1069 All your theorems are belong to Gauss. 41 12
1076 God and Gauss have a deal. When God finally stumps Gauss with a theorem to prove, the world will end. Since we're still on Earth guess how that's going? 14 1
986 Gauss proved that there are more real numbers than integer numbers, by counting them. 37 1
766 Gauss plays basketball with a Riemann sphere. 35 1
1073 Gauss solves Navier-Stokes equations by hand. 15 1
773 Gauss chooses his lotto numbers from an undecidable set. 26 4
897 Gauss can square the circle and trisecate the angle with compass and straightedge 19 4
911 The universe isn't expanding, it is just making more room for Gauss's ideas 32 1
912 Protons suffered an emotional breakdown. Gauss said "keep it together" and they haven't decayed since. 27 2
858 Gauss knows the last 4 digits of Pi 19 5
854 When Carl Gauss is solving the A+B problem, he always reduces it into a NP-hard problem in O(1) time and then solve it in O(1) time. 19 1
855 If Gauss finds no correlation, they're independent. 17 0
857 Gauss can exactly determine the position and the momentum of a particle with absolute accuracy! 22 7
833 Parallel lines intersect anywhere Gauss wants them to. 14 4
910 Gauss knows if Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead, and also what collar it wears 16 2
900 Whenever Gauss tries to solve a problem in R^4, he generalizes the problem for R^n and then makes n=4. 96 16
901 Once, Fermat contrariated Gauss, and the result was "The Last Fermat Theorem" (bye bye Fermat!) 13 7
906 Gauss doesn't know what the Uncertainty principle is, because he is certain of everything. 20 4
903 Gauss discovered non-euclidean geometry, but did not publish it, holding mathematics back for half a century (this one is actually true!) 31 2
1028 Gauss had a theory of arithmetic that was consistent and complete. Also, he proved the incompleteness theorems. When God uttered "But ... isn't there a contradic-" Gauss disproved his existence. 22 9
779 Some numbers are transcendental because Gauss didn't think they were rational enough. 17 0
1100 Gauss is an exclusive member of an empty set. 60 4
1217 When Gauß died, he did not leave any conjectures but excersises. 43 2
818 Gauss could solve an n-dimensional Rubik hypercube. He tried just once. 10 3
798 Gauss once said suppose sqrt(2) = p/q where p&q are integers. He found 2 such integers. 16 5
1180 Gauss can draw every non-Lebesgue-measurable set. 18 3
1181 Gauss knows the next random number 64 3
945 Gauss can draw parallel lines on a sphere. 10 3
947 Gauss can recite all the digite of pi - backwards. 23 6
1071 Cayley's theorem is true because Gauss had only created permutation groups. 8 0
984 When Gauss plays as player A, the player A has the winning strategy. When Gauss plays as player B, the player B has the winning strategy. 37 2
954 First the earth was without math. And Gauss said,"Let there be math". And it was so. And Gauss saw that math was good; and Gauss separated math from everything else. And that was the first day. 27 6
955 Gauss's mom never tells him his birthday. Gauss calculates it. 17 2
980 The God Particle is actually nature's tribute to Gauss 15 6
1059 When Gauss was cremated, he rebuilt himself into two copies of himself using the Banach-Tarski theorem 35 4
1060 Gauss can perfectly calculate Chaitin's constants. 11 4
1061 If mathematicians were Turing machines, Gauss would be the Busy Beaver. 21 3
1098 When Gauss decides to turn left or right, it's spontaneous symmetry breaking. 27 3
1099 When Gauss plays Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game, he always wins. 8 1
1134 Gauss once proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra by explicitly writing out every nonconstant polynomial over the complex numbers and writing each as a product of linear factors. 46 11
1235 Heisenberg came up with the Uncertainty Principle because he was not as certain as Gauss. 75 10
846 Gauss can construct an atomic formula consisting solely of quantifiers and logical connectives. 7 1
1026 The continuum hypothesis is independent from ZFC because Gauss thought it is more fun to have two theories there. 10 1
1027 The most precise statement of the well-ordering theorem is: Gauss has bothered to well-order every set. Since we do not know if he has, it is undecidable. 10 1
848 Gauss's ant can escape Langton's highway. 8 0
804 Gauss knew the general solution to the n-body problem. 8 1
805 Gauss can solve any Rubik's cube in only 1 move. 49 19
812 Gauss can count to aleph one. 28 3
815 The only thing Fermat could really prove is that Gauss is always correct. 10 1
816 Gauss can fill each of m pigeonholes with n pigeons such that no hole contains more than one pigeon, regardless of whether m > n. 18 1
817 Soon, infinity cannot exist any longer. Even the largest numbers cannot run away from Gauss for ever. 16 5
907 Gauss builds the Mandelbrot set with ruler and compass. 32 2
807 In His great Elimination, Gauss gave us the Triangulars. 16 1
808 You'll get the Error when you try to integrate the Gaussian. 33 3
1174 Gauss can choose one sock from infinity pairs without the Axiom of Choice. 24 2
1296 Gauss can draw circles with a straight edge and lines with a compass 48 9
2488 Gauss can grow corn in Z6 25 4
高斯能被0整除。
高斯能完整地背出圆周率——是倒着背。
高斯口渴时会用巴拿赫-塔斯基悖论弄出更多橙汁。
高斯不能理解随机过程,因为他能预测随机数。
高斯小时候,老师让他算从1到100的和。他计算了这个无穷级数的和,然后一个一个地减去从100开始的所用自然数。而且,是心算。
一位数学家、一位物理学家、一位工程师走进酒吧,酒吧招待说:“您好,高斯教授。”
有一次,高斯和自己玩了一个零和游戏,然后赢了 50 块钱。
有一次,费马惹怒了高斯,于是就有了费马最终定理。
询问高斯一个命题是真的还是假的,构成了一个严格的证明。
有一次高斯证明了一条公理,但他不喜欢它,所以他又证明了它是假命题。
高斯通过在证明结束时省去“证明完毕”来保护热带雨林。
有一次高斯在森林里迷路了,于是他加了几条边把它变成了一棵树。
高斯用奥卡姆剃刀剃胡子。
上帝不掷骰子,除非高斯答应让他赢一次。
空集的定义是高斯无法证明的定理的集合。
高斯不承认复数(complex number),因为他们太简单了。
费马认为他的书的边缘太小,写不下费马大定理的证明。高斯找到了一个证明,对这个证明而言那本书的边缘太大了。
数学家常常把证明留给读者作为习题;只有高斯把证明留给上帝作为习题。
当哥德尔听说了高斯能证明一切命题,他让高斯证明“存在高斯不能证明的命题”高斯证出来了,但还是不存在他不能证明的命题。量子态就是这样产生的。
高斯钢笔里的墨水能治癌症。遗憾的是,高斯的一切计算都在头脑中进行,他不用钢笔。
高斯是这样证明良序定理的:他瞪着那个集合,直到集合中的元素出于纯粹的恐惧而排成一排。
上帝创造了自然数。其它的都是高斯的作品。
高斯不使用拉格朗日乘数法,因为对他而言根本不存在约束条件。
没有诺贝尔数学奖,因为第一年高斯就把所有奖金拿走了。
Erdos相信上帝手中有一本包含世间所有精妙证明的天书。上帝相信这本书在高斯手上。
高斯不用任何公理就能证明一个定理。
高斯从后往前列举了一下质数,就知道了质数有无穷多。
高斯从来不会用光书本页面边缘的空白。
高斯做俯卧撑时,他不是把自己撑起来,而是把整个地球按下去。
读了高斯的书之后,Maxwell决定退出数学界转而从事咖啡行业。
尽管微积分在高斯生前 100 年诞生,但高斯仍然发明了微积分。
只有高斯才知道薛定谔的猫是死是活——他甚至都不需要观察。
高斯不仅知道薛定谔的猫是死是活,而且还知道那只猫戴了什么样的项圈。
海森堡之所以发现了不确定性原理是因为他不能像高斯一样确定每一件事情。
高斯的冰淇淋能达到绝对零度。
高斯知道下一个随机数是多少。
物理定律为了躲避高斯的智慧,所以有了星际迷航里隐藏起来的中立区。
高斯家里的铜线可以实现常温超导。
起初地球上没有数学。高斯说:要有数学,就有了数学。高斯看数学是好的,就把数学和其他东西分开了。——这是头一日。
高斯用自己的小拇指作为工具就测出了日地距。
高斯解出了N-S方程——通过手算。
高斯的母亲从来没有向高斯说过高斯的生日,高斯可以自己计算出来。
如果高斯认为两者没有关系,那么他们就是独立的。
宇宙并非在膨胀,它只是在为高斯的想法提供更多的空间。
高斯证明了实数多于整数——通过穷举法。
平行线可以在任何高斯希望他们相交的地方相交。
费马唯一能够证明的是:高斯总是对的。
高斯能诚实的告诉别人自己在说谎。
当高斯告诉你他是在说谎时,你最好相信。
只有两样东西是无限的——宇宙和高斯的智慧。而且,对于前者我还不太确定。——爱因斯坦
真不敢相信竟然有人拿高斯和上帝比,怎么说呢,他的确很厉害,但他毕竟不是高斯。
高斯能在球面上作出一个平面。
晚上,定理们围坐在篝火旁听妈妈讲高斯的故事。
对于高斯,函数没有区别,因为他可以分解它们。
高斯发明了牛顿和莱布尼茨。
当高斯想解决R^4的问题时,一般都是先解决 R^n,然后令 n=4。
高斯在用费曼问题解决算法时都是跳过第二步:1写下这个问题;2努力思考;3写出答案。
高斯知道不存在任何一个乏味的数(dull number / uninteresting number),因为他知道每一个数的趣味所在。
高斯可以把一块磁铁分成两部分并产生两个磁单极子。
200年前,高斯发明了第一台64位计算机,但它拖慢了高斯的工作进程。
据说在很久很久以前,高斯在宇宙中表演了一个小球的反演。现在的科学家称之为宇宙大爆炸。
高斯用克莱因瓶喝酒。
高斯不承认不确定性原理,因为他可以确定每一件事情。
数学是高斯为了让别人能有所发现而发明的。
当高斯令一个正整数增加1时,那个正整数并没有增加,而是其他正整数减少了1。
高斯从不走路,当他需要去某地时,他只需要旋转脚下的地球。
发散序列当看到高斯在旁边时会收敛。
高斯不需要站在巨人的肩膀上就可以看的比任何人都远。
高斯可以把农夫、狼、羊、菜送过河,即使河里压根没有船。
高斯不明白NP问题,因为他在第一次解决一个问题时用的就是最优解法。
高斯证明了1+1=2——通过证明其他所有结果都是错误的。
高斯能填满克莱因瓶。
现在的发现都是高斯未公开发表的发明。
如果高斯说:我找不到反例。那么这就构成了对这个定理的严格证明。
数学家利用公理,高斯证明公理。
高斯能证明两个定理——仅仅通过一个证明。
高斯的Erdos数是-1。
据说,黎曼是高斯用来发表自己不是很满意的论文时用的笔名。
高斯用归纳法证明了归纳法。
高斯发明了比卡诺热机效率还高的机器。
高斯能同时精确地测量物体的位置和速度。
高斯可以不重复地走遍柯尼斯堡的七座桥。
高斯在第一次看到西兰花的时候就发明了分形理论,但是考虑到这个理论太过显而易见,他没有发表这个发明。
高斯同时给他自己和罗素剪头发。
高斯不需要去同意量子力学和相对论,因为他从一开始就找到了正确的理论。
高斯证明了哥德巴赫猜想——通过验证每一种情形。
数学家是一台把咖啡转化成数学定理的机器,只有高斯什么都不需要就可以创造数学理论。
高斯可以在一块理想导体内部建立电场。
高斯可以轻而易举逃离黑洞。
高斯能令ε<0。
如果高斯需要到达离他100米的地方,他会先通过100米的一半,然后通过剩下路程的一半,然后再通过剩下的剩下的一半,如此反复……最终,他会到达那里。
高斯说过“数学是科学的皇后”,你猜谁是国王?
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