Quotes by : G.H. Hardy

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science,....

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent....

It seems that mathematical ideas are arranged somehow in strata, the ideas in each stratum being linked....

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like....

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas....

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate....

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and....

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—‘important’ if you like, but the word is very....

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent....

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the....