A Chess Problem Is Simply An Exercise

317 Is A Prime, Not Because We Think So, Or Because Our Minds Are Shaped In One Way Rather Than Another, But Because It Is So, Because Mathematical Reality Is Built That Way.

The Case For My Life... Is This: That I Have Added Something To Knowledge, And Helped Others To Add More

[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.

It Is Not Worth An Intelligent Man's Time To Be In The Majority. By Definition, There Are Already Enough People To Do That.

Mathematics May, Like Poetry Or Music, "promote And Sustain A Lofty Habit Of Mind."