If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift. - G. H. Hardy
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
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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