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Quotes from Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum — Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777–1855 Germany

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But of all these principles ours is the most simple; by the others we should be led into the most complicated calculations.

Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (1809)

The principle that the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed and computed quantities must be a minimum may, in the following manner, be considered independently of the calculus of probabilities.

Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (1809)

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