Assertion: gauss's discovery | /r/CapableOf | lead gauss
Facets:
value: ultimately
type: DEGREE
value: to choose mathematics
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: This was a major discovery in an important field of mathematics; construction problems had occupied mathematicians since the days of the Ancient Greeks, and the discovery ultimately led Gauss to choose mathematics instead of philology as a career.
text: The discovery of Ceres led Gauss to his work on a theory of the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets, eventually published in 1809 as Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (Theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun).