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.

I Am Obliged To Interpolate Some Remarks On A Very Difficult Subject: Proof And Its Importance In Mathematics. All Physicists, And A Good Many Quite Respectable Mathematicians, Are Contemptuous About Proof. I Have Heard Professor Eddington, For Example, Maintain That Proof, As Pure Mathematicians Understand It, Is Really Quite Uninteresting And Unimportant, And That No One Who Is Really Certain That He Has Found Something Good Should Waste His Time Looking For Proof.

Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

All Analysts Spend Half Their Time Hunting Through The Literature For Inequalities Which They Want To Use And Cannot Prove.

No One Has Yet Discovered Any Warlike Purpose To Be Served By The Theory Of Numbers Or Relativity, And It Seems Unlikely That Anyone Will Do So For Many Years.