G.H. Hardy over de onsterfelijkheid van wiskundigen

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.
Godfrey Harold Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology (1940)

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