The Public Does Not Need

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

I Propose To Put Forward An Apology For Mathematics; And I May Be Told That It Needs None, Since There Are Now Few Studies More Generally Recognized, For Good Reasons Or Bad, As Profitable And Praiseworthy.

I Was At My Best At A Little Past Forty, When I Was A Professor At Oxford.

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.

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