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G. H. Hardy Quotes

Type:
Mathematician Quotes
Category:
British Mathematician Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 7, 1877
Date of Death:
December 1, 1947
Nationality:
British
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G. H. Hardy

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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

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

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy

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

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

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

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy


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