This theorem is baffling. Its Latin wording (“excellent theorem”) was forged by Gauß because he was so excited about it. Gauß studied surfaces for years before discovering this result. It is the kind of theorem which could have waited dozens of years more before being discovered by another mathematician since, unlike so much of intellectual history, it was absolutely not in the air.
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Berger, M. (2003). Surfaces from Gauß to Today. In A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry (pp. 105–142). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18245-7_3
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