Good Work Is Not Done

The Case For My Life... Is This: That I Have Added Something To Knowledge, And Helped Others To Add More

The Public Does Not Need To Be Convinced That There Is Something In Mathematics.

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.

A Man Who Sets Out To Justify His Existence And His Activities Has To Distinguish Two Different Questions. The First Is Whether The Work Which He Does Is Worth Doing; And The Second Is Why He Does It (whatever Its Value May Be).

I Remember Once Going To See Him [ramanujan] When He Was Lying Ill At Putney. I Had Ridden In Taxi-cab No. 1729, And Remarked That The Number Seemed To Me Rather A Dull One, And That I Hoped It Was Not An Unfavourable Omen. "no," He Replied, "it Is A Very Interesting Number; It Is The Smallest Number Expressible As A Sum Of Two Cubes In Two Different Ways."