The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful. G. H. Hardy
Mathematics And Science
A mathematician, like a
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
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. Immortality may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G. H. Hardy
Beauty is the first
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
I believe that mathematical
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our creations, are simply the notes of our observations. G. H. Hardy
If your experiment needs
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford
Obvious is the most
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. Eric Temple Bell
The cowboys have a
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. Eric Bell