Quotes by : G.H. Hardy

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which....

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

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said....

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

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a....

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

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will....

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

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

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad,....