Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

— G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

Source: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Hardy.html

Topics: mathematics