ReadOasis Step 3 Göttingen, Germany, June 1854. A shy young man stands before a room of serious professors. The young man's name is Riemann. He is 27. He wants to teach at this university. But first, he must pass one last test: He must give a big talk. But Riemann can’t choose the topic. He gives three ideas to Professor Gauss, the most famous mathematician in Germany. Riemann has already prepared the first two. He hopes Gauss will pick one of them. But Gauss picks the third: geometry, the math ...