![]() ![]() As Gauss caught sight of him, he flew into a rage: he broke a jug that was standing on the windowsill, stamped his foot, and struck out wildly. In the parlor, his son Eugen was waiting with a bag packed. When that didn’t work either, he pushed back the coverlet and set his feet on the floor.īad-temperedly, he performed the most minimal ablutions and went downstairs. ![]() When he opened them again and Minna was still there, he told her she was a hindrance, and limited, and the misfortune of his old age. When Minna told him he must get up, the coach was waiting and it was a long journey, he wrapped his arms around the pillow and tried to make his wife disappear by closing his eyes. So now Professor Gauss was hiding in bed. He had been declining to accept for months, but Alexander von Humboldt had remained adamant, until in a moment of weakness and the hope that the day would never come, he had said yes. In September 1828, the greatest mathematician in the country left his hometown for the first time in years, to attend the German Scientific Congress in Berlin. ![]()
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