Harold Davenport Quotes

• A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

  Harold Davenport

  Simple, Mathematics, Arithmetic

  Harold Davenport (1970). “The higher arithmetic: an introduction to the theory of numbers”

  6 Copy quote

• Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

  Harold Davenport

  Problem, Mathematics, Theory

  Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr

  6 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

John Edensor Littlewood

Enrico Bombieri

Louis J. Mordell

G. H. Hardy

John Horton Conway

Daniel Goldston

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Prince Philip