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“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

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Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

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The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

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A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

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I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know…

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The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I…

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The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it…

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The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the…

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I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got…

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I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends."…

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The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

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A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again…

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Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

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