Page "Carl Friedrich Gauss" Paragraph 44

According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.

He is purported to have said, " Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done.

" This anecdote is briefly discussed in G. Waldo Dunnington's Gauss, Titan of Science where it is suggested that it is an apocryphal story.