Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

For My Part, It Is Difficult For Me To Say What I Owe To Ramanujan - His Originality Has Been A Constant Source Of Suggestion To Me Ever Since I Knew Him, And His Death Is One Of The Worst Blows I Have Ever Had.

A Month's Intelligent Instruction In The Theory Of Numbes Ought To Be Twice As Instructive, Twice As Useful, And At Least 10 Times As Entertaining As The Same Amount Of 'calculus For Engineers'.

The Mathematician's Patterns, Like The Painter's Or The Poet's, Must Be Beautiful.

Beauty Is The First Test: There Is No Permanent Place In The World For Ugly Mathematics.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 Of Ramanujan] Must Be True Because, If They Were Not True, No One Would Have Had The Imagination To Invent Them.