Good Work Is Not Done By 'humble'

I Am Interested In Mathematics Only As A Creative Art.

The Creative Life Was The Only One For A Serious Man.

The Primes Are The Raw Material Out Of Which We Have To Build Arithmetic, And Euclid's Theorem Assures Us That We Have Plenty Of Material For The Task.

It Is Rather Astonishing How Little Practical Value Scientific Knowledge Has For Ordinary Men, How Dull And Commonplace Such Of It As Has Value Is, And How Its Value Seems Almost To Vary Inversely To Its Reputed Utility.

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.