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- As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
- I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the…
- [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
- Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
- In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin…
- When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most…
- All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
- 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…
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