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G. H. Hardy
British
Mathematician
About the author
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
G. H. Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Mathematics
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Work
#Men
#Criticism
#Appreciation
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Old
#Men
#Books
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Art
#Mathematics
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,
British
Mathematician
#Ideas
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
G. H. Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Will
#Ideas
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,
British
Mathematician
#Time
#People
#Man
#Worth
#Majority