In These Days Of Conflict Between Ancient

If A Man Is In Any Sense A Real Mathematician, Then It Is A Hundred To One That His Mathematics Will Be Far Better Than Anything Else He Can Do, And That He Would Be Silly If He Surrendered Any Decent Opportunity Of Exercising His One Talent In Order To Do Undistinguished Work In Other Fields. Such A Sacrifice Could Be Justified Only By Economic Necessity Of Age.

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.

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

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'.