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11 quotes by G. H. Hardy

Godfrey Harold ("G. H.") Hardy FRS (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He is usually known by those outside the field of mathematics for his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics, A Mathematician's Apology, which is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman. Starting in...
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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... →

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

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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... →

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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

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

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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... →

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

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

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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some... →

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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

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