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G. H. Hardy was a renowned British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. Born on February 7, 1877, he passed away on December 1, 1947. Hardy is respected for his unique mathematical style and profound insights into mathematical problems.

Famous G. H. Hardy Quotes

“The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.”

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“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.”

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“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.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: 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.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.”

Science Materials Tasks Plenty Raw Materials Arithmetic Theorems Euclid

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

About the Author

Born: February 7, 1877
Died: December 1, 1947
Known for: Mathematician
Quotes: 84

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