“… there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.”

— G. H. Hardy, book A Mathematician's Apology

A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

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British mathematician 1877–1947

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