
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Hardy , G. H. (1992-01-31), A Mathematician's Apology, Retrieved on 2013-03-26Source Material [books.google.com]
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26 MAR 2013
Mathematics is More Popular Than Music and Art
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."
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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.
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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's,
must be b...Mathematical ideas are more permanent in culture than artistic ones, and more people play in mathematical games without realizing it.
26 MAR 2013
Mathematics Lies Outside Ourselves
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our
function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we
prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are
simply the notes of our observations.
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Let us suppose that I am giving a lecture on some system of
geometry, such as the ordinary Euclidean geometry, and that I draw figures
on the blackboard to stimulate the imagination of my audience, rough
drawings of straight lines or ...When teaching mathematics, it does not matter how nice the drawings or the teaching space, the ideas are what's important and they are independent of the teaching method.