[On the Gaussian curve,
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. Gabriel Lippmann
Mathematical
If you help others,
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. G. I. Gurdjieff
The fact is there
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. G. H. Hardy
I do not know
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty G. H. Hardy
As history proves abundantly,
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. G. H. Hardy
Most people have some
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no … Read more
The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful. G. H. Hardy
317 is a prime,
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way. G. H. Hardy
Pure mathematics is on
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
In [great mathematics] there
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. G. H. Hardy