Exposition, Criticism, Appreciation, Is Work For Second-rate

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.

Cricket Is The Only Game Where You Are Playing Against Eleven Of The Other Side And Ten Of Your Own.

The "seriousness" Of A Mathematical Theorem Lies, Not In Its Practical Consequences, Which Are Usually Negligible, But In The Significance Of The Mathematical Ideas Which It Connects.

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 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.