Excerpts from A Mathematician's Apology · gino
The Justification for Mathematics Hardy opens with the melancholy of writing about mathematics instead of doing mathematics, and a criticism of those who expound. The function of…
← writing The Justification for Mathematics Hardy opens with the melancholy of writing about mathematics instead of doing mathematics, and a criticism of those who expound. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who…
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