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 this world for ugly mathematics.
Hardy, Godfrey H. (1877 - 1947)
A Mathematician's Apology, London, Cambridge
University Press, 1941.
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