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G. H. Hardy Quotes

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

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
February 7, 1877
Date of Death:
December 1, 1947
Nationality:
British
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