We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is "significant" if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other mathematical ideas.


A Mathematician's Apology, Chapter 11 (p. 89), Cambridge University Press. 1967

G. H. Hardy Quotes

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is significant if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other ...

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is significant if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other ...

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is significant if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other ...

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is significant if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other ...