Archimedes Will Be Remembered When Aeschylus Is

[i Was Advised] To Read Jordan's 'cours D'analyse'; And I Shall Never Forget The Astonishment With Which I Read That Remarkable Work, The First Inspiration For So Many Mathematicians Of My Generation, And Learnt For The First Time As I Read It What Mathematics Really Meant.

The Mathematician's Patterns, Like The Painter's Or The Poet's, Must Be Beautiful.

A Month's Intelligent Instruction In The Theory Of Numbes Ought To Be Twice As Instructive, Twice As Useful, And At Least 10 Times As Entertaining As The Same Amount Of 'calculus For Engineers'.

There Is No Scorn More Profound, Or On The Whole More Justifiable, Than That Of The Men Who Make For The Men Who Explain.

Sometimes One Has To Say Difficult Things, But One Ought To Say Them As Simply As One Knows How.