G. H. Hardy Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Past, Oxford

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

• I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

  G. H. Hardy

  Past, Men, Fifty

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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