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A Mathematician's Apology (G. H. Hardy)

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Friday, July 5, 2024 12:16:23 AM

  1. "If a man has any genuine talent he 4 should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full."

Friday, July 5, 2024 12:23:34 AM

  1. "‘There is nothing that I can do particularly well. I do what I do because it came my way."

Friday, July 5, 2024 12:58:39 AM

  1. "languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

Friday, July 5, 2024 1:03:12 AM

  1. "A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns."

Friday, July 5, 2024 1:03:18 AM

  1. "If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

Friday, July 5, 2024 1:05:14 AM

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

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:20:04 AM

  1. "‘a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life’,"

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:23:46 AM

  1. "For me, and I suppose for most mathematicians, there is another reality, which I will call ‘mathematical reality’;"

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:43:38 AM

  1. "the mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality."

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:45:17 AM

  1. "roughly what a physicist is trying to do. It is plain that he"

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:45:47 AM

  1. "he is trying to correlate the incoherent body of crude fact confronting him with some definite and orderly scheme of abstract relations, the kind of scheme he can borrow only from mathematics."

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:46:42 AM

  1. "A mathematician, on the other hand, is working with his own mathematical reality."

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:49:27 AM

  1. "Pure mathematics, on the other hand, seems to me a rock on which all idealism founders:"