G H Hardy Quotes

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

Because His Ideas Like Made Maker Mathematician More Painter Patterns Permanent Poet Than

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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

~ G. H. Hardy

Because Die Forgotten Ideas Languages Mathematical Remembered Will

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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

~ G. H. Hardy

Am Art Creative I Am Interested Mathematics Only

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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

Definition Enough Enough People Intelligent Majority Man People Time Worth

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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

Above Applied Mainly Mathematical Mathematics More Pure Taught Technique Than Through Useful Whole

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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

Appreciation Criticism Explain Make Men Minds More Profound Scorn Second-Rate Than Who Whole Work

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

~ G. H. Hardy

Books Men Old Old Men Prove Should Theorems Write Young Young Men

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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.

~ G. H. Hardy

Because His Ideas Like Made Maker Mathematician More Painter Patterns Permanent Poet Than

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

~ G. H. Hardy

Beauty First Mathematics Permanent Place Test Ugly World

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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

~ G. H. Hardy

Best Forty Little Oxford Past Professor

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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.

~ G. H. Hardy

Any Deal Five Four Great Great Deal I Can Importance Little More Papers Remember Satisfaction Some Still Than Very Which Wrote

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