The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

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A Mathematician's Apology

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Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician's Apology. Cambridge University Press, 1940.

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