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John Edensor Littlewood

The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

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Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

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I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends. " My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had. " In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said. . . "

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Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

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The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

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It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

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