G. H. Hardy Quotes

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

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• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

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• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

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• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

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• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

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• It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

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Birth:	7th February, 1877
Death:	1st December, 1947
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Mathematician

About

Godfrey Harold Hardy was born in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. He was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In 1903 he earned his M.A., which was the highest academic degree at English universities at that time. Starting in 1914, he was the mentor of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, a relationship that has become celebrated. He left Oxford and returned to Cambridge in 1931, where he was Sadleirian Professor until 1942.

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