Fifty Quote by G. H. Hardy Download Open image “I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty” — G. H. Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fifty Instance Knows Majors Mathematical Men Past
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical… — Anonymous Copy Share
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage, determination, and… — William Dunham Copy Share Image
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
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 austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share
Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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