Ideas Quote by G. H. Hardy

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

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,…

— Andre Weil

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

— Jack Edmonds

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois…

— Anonymous

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

— Michaela Watkins

The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be…

— George Dantzig

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by…

— Alfred Adler

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance…

— J. P. Guilford

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota