Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent va… - G. H. Hardy
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent va…
- G. H. Hardy
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. - G. H. Hardy
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. - G. H. Hardy
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. - G. H. Hardy
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed … - G. H. Hardy
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed …
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." - G. H. Hardy
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift. - G. H. Hardy
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - G. H. Hardy
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a har… - G. H. Hardy
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a har…
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