Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.