A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or A

Greek Mathematics Is The Real Thing. The Greeks First Spoke A Language Which Modern Mathematicians Can Understand... So Greek Mathematics Is 'permanent', More Permanent Even Than Greek Literature.

There Is Always More In One Of Ramanujan's Formulae Than Meets The Eye, As Anyone Who Sets To Work To Verify Those Which Look The Easiest Will Soon Discover. In Some The Interest Lies Very Deep, In Others Comparatively Near The Surface; But There Is Not One Which Is Not Curious And Entertaining.

If Intellectual Curiosity, Professional Pride, And Ambition Are The Dominant Incentives To Research, Then Assuredly No One Has A Fairer Chance Of Gratifying Them Than A Mathematician.

A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or A Poet, Is A Maker Of Patterns.

I Was At My Best At A Little Past Forty, When I Was A Professor At Oxford.