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G. H. Hardy Quotes about Math

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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 harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in

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 harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G. H. Hardy
Beauty, Beautiful, Math
A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

G. H. Hardy
Math, Patterns, Original Ideas
G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G. H. Hardy
Beauty, Math, Apology
A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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.

G. H. Hardy
Silly, Mean, Math
A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

G. H. Hardy
Book, Writing, Math

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

G. H. Hardy
Math, Names, People
G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

G. H. Hardy
Math, Hunting, Use

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Math, Names

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy
Education, Math, Unique
G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G. H. Hardy
Love, Sacrifice, Math
G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

G. H. Hardy
Beautiful, Math, Patterns
A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Math, People
G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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