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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

— W.W.R. Ball

History of Mathematics (3rd Ed., 1901), 362.

See also: | Anecdote (14) | Carl Friedrich Gauss (52) | Mathematician (66) | Philosopher (33)

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