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Carl Friedrich Gauss MBTI Personality Type

Carl Friedrich Gauss MBTI Personality Type

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What personality type is Carl Friedrich Gauss? Carl Friedrich Gauss is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/sx - 513 in Enneagram, in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.

• Gauss: "All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced." >>> (Preference for Ti over Te) • Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen: "Gauss's aim was always to give his investigations the form of perfect works of art. He would not rest sooner and never gave a piece of work to the public until he had given it the perfection of form he desired for it." >>> (Preference for Ti over Te) • Waldo Dunnington: "Gauss's religious consciousness was based on an insatiable thirst for truth and a deep feeling of justice extending to intellectual as well as material goods. He conceived spiritual life in the whole universe as a great system of law penetrated by eternal truth." >>> (Preference for Ti) • Gauss: "I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where ½ proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible." >>> (Preference for Ti over Te) Cognitive Type: "[Ti] uses simple metrics such as self-contradiction, symmetry, or alignment, rather than a comparison against an organic standard." >>> • Gauss: "Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density." IDRLabs: "Ne generates a flurry of clever and loose ideas when it comes into contact with intellectual novelty; quickly exhausts every new idea that the novelty affords and moves on." >>> • Gauss: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others." >>> and also: • Gauss: "I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of." IDRLabs: "If a person has an Fe/Ti axis, then, all other things being equal, he will tend to see all men as being essentially “cut from the same cloth” (Fe), while all observations pertaining to Thinking will unconsciously be seen as universally accessible, regardless of who made them (Ti). >>> • Gauss: "If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

Biography

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics.