Ideas Quote by G. H. Hardy

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less…

— G. H. Hardy

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

— Lynn Steen

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

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

“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is…

— Paul Lockhart

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

— Ronald Graham

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out…

— Marston Morse