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Godfrey Harold Hardy
British
Mathematician
About the author
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Godfrey Harold Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Ideas
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Godfrey Harold Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#World
#First
#Ugly
#Beauty
#Mathematics
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
Godfrey Harold Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Past
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
Godfrey Harold Hardy,
British
Mathematician
#Satisfaction
#Importance