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“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.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“Euclid's work will live long after all the text-books of the present day are superseded and forgotten. It is one of the noblest monuments of antiquity; no mathematician worthy of the name can afford not to know Euclid.”
― The Thirteen Books Of Euclid's Elements Volume 3 1926 [Leather Bound]
― The Thirteen Books Of Euclid's Elements Volume 3 1926 [Leather Bound]
“The respectful and objective treatment given to cranks in newspapers-presenting both sides of a question when there is only one side-leads one to wonder how much other such material appears in their pages.”
― Mathematical Cranks
― Mathematical Cranks
“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.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
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