Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Charles Percy Snow (intro);
A Mathematician's Apology
Cambridge University Press, 1992, 153 pages
ISBN 0521427061, 9780521427067
topics: | autobiography | math | philosophy
Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. 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. p.81