Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

G.H. Hardy
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  1. Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

  2. A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

  3. A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  4. 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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