Re: 2 interesting quotes by famous mathematicians

In article <Kn7Fh.49159$pe4.44135@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Nasser Abbasi" <nma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For
what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught
mainly through pure mathematics. "

G.H.Hardy.


"I regard as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis:
too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the
works of applications that one must study them; one judges their ability
there and one apprises the manner of making use of them."
Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813)

Do you see any conflict in these 2 quotes? Or are they complementary?



Well, Hardy was English and Lagrange a Frenchman.
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