It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity" Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. He referred to mathematics as "the queen of sciences".