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“The mathematician is an imaginative person. Like the poet or the painter. I always tell children the story of Gauss, who lived in Germany between the 18th and 19th centuries. One day at school the teacher, as punishment, gives the task of adding up all the numbers from one to 100. Crazy stuff! But Gauss comes up with a trick: he adds up 1+100, that is, the first and the last number in the list; then 2+99, 3+98… And he discovers that it always makes 101. Since there are 100 numbers, he has to sum 50 pairs that together make 101. Gauss multiplies 101\u00d750 and turns in the assignment first. He was 8 years old and a very imaginative child: he became one of the most important mathematicians in history.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\nBruno D\u2019Amore<\/strong>, mathematician and pedagogue, University of Bologna<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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