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It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new
theorems
, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.
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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 our notes of our observations.
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What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical
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, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.
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Young men should prove
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, old men should write books.
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The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's
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assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical
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lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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Born:
February 7, 1877
Died:
December 1, 1947
(aged 70)
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