Quotes by G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

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Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is be — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is be — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immorta — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immorta — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. Fo — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. Fo — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit t — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit t — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts bett — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts bett — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
It seems that mathematical ideas are arranged somehow in strata, the ideas in each stratum being linked by a complex of — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
It seems that mathematical ideas are arranged somehow in strata, the ideas in each stratum being linked by a complex of — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study whic — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study whic — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theore — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theore — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that rem — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that rem — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the word — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the word — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology