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A Chess Problem Is Simply An Exercise In Pure Mathematics.

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

A Chess Problem Is Genuine Mathematics, But It Is In Some Way "trivial" Mathematics. However, Ingenious And Intricate, However Original And Surprising The Moves, There Is Something Essential Lacking. Chess Problems Are Unimportant. The Best Mathematics Is Serious As Well As Beautiful-"important" If You Like, But The Word Is Very Ambiguous, And "serious" Expresses What I Mean Much Better.

As Littlewood Said To Me Once [of The Ancient Greeks], They Are Not Clever School Boys Or "scholarship Candidates," But "fellows Of Another College."

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.