Годфри Харолд Харди знаменитые цитаты
1941
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.… 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 a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
глупое слово, но, по всей видимости, математик имеет наилучший шанс на бессмертие, что бы оно ни означало.
1941
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
Годфри Харолд Харди: Цитаты на английском языке
"The Theory of Numbers," Nature (Sep 16, 1922) Vol. 110 https://books.google.com/books?id=1bMzAQAAMAAJ p. 381
“I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.”
Источник: A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
Quoted by C. P. Snow in his introduction to reprints of the book.
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
“Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.”
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
Источник: Ramanujan (1940), Ch. I : The Indian mathematician Ramanujan.
Источник: Ramanujan (1940), Ch. I : The Indian mathematician Ramanujan.
“If I knew I was going to die today, I think I should still want to hear the cricket scores.”
Источник: Quoted in The Joy of Cricket (ed. John Bright-Holmes, 1984)
