G. H. Hardy (1877 – 1947)
British mathematician.
Quotes
- 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.
- Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
- 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.
- from A Mathematician's Apology
