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Asked If He Believes In One G-d, A Mathematician Answered: "yes, Up To Isomorphism".

I Do Not Know An Instance Of A Major Mathematical Advance Initiated By A Man Past Fifty

I Count Maxwell And Einstein, Eddington And Dirac, Among "real" Mathematicians. The Great Modern Achievements Of Applied Mathematics Have Been In Relativity And Quantum Mechanics, And These Subjects Are At Present At Any Rate, Almost As "useless" As The Theory Of Numbers.

[regarding Mathematics,] There Are Now Few Studies More Generally Recognized, For Good Reasons Or Bad, As Profitable And Praiseworthy. This May Be True; Indeed It Is Probable, Since The Sensational Triumphs Of Einstein, That Stellar Astronomy And Atomic Physics Are The Only Sciences Which Stand Higher In Popular Estimation.

A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or A Poet, Is A Maker Of Patterns.