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

~G. H. Hardy

Topics: Beauty First Mathematics Permanent Place Test Ugly World

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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.

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Topics: Definition Enough Enough People Intelligent Majority Man People Time Worth

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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

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

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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

~G. H. Hardy

Topics: Am Art Creative Interested Mathematics Only I Am

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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

~G. H. Hardy

Topics: Best Forty Little Oxford Past Professor

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 7th, 1877

Died: December 1st, 1947

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