Quotations

Lazarus Fuchs


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After a long computation in his lecture led to the result 0 = 0, he first painfully suspected an error, but that he then regained his composure and said
" 'Null = Null' ist ja ein sehr schönes und richtiges Résultat."

['Zero = zero' is a very beautiful and correct result]
W Ahrens, Mathematiker-Anekdoten (1920)