Over the past few days, I have been studying Gauss' life and became surprised on that he admired Newton to such a great extent.

In his youth, he ardently read the works of Euler, Lagrange and ofcourse Newton but one man strangely caught his interest above all, and that was none other than the Englishman.

Gauss himself once claimed that he read Euler for the rich substance but Newton for the rigor and "style". And indeed, Newton had a well-reputed (or ill-reputed) "synthetic" style through which he obscured and erased completely anything that might have given the reader an idea on how he reached the proof. (His Principia was criticized by his contemporaries on this point).

So thus it is very clear where Gauss got his tendency to be, in Abel's own words, "like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand".

Gauss even mastered English so that he could gain further insight onto the life of Newton, and his library in later years became replete with English literature.

And not only that, he even applied the Latin adjective "summus" (which means greatest) to nobody but Newton, and even once said that "Newton was the master of all masters!".