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“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
 
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G. H. Hardy
 
Name:   G. H. Hardy
 
Nationality:   British
 
Date of Birth:   Feb 7, 1877
 
Date of Death:   Dec 1,  1947
 
Profession:   Mathematician
 
 
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
 
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
 
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
 
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
 
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