On Godfrey Hardy
by Freeman Dyson
When I was 17 years old [1940] I came as a student to Cambridge University and got to know the famous mathematician Godfrey Hardy [64 years old]... He gave lectures on the pure mathematics that he loved to four or five students sittig around a small table in a small seminar room. In that little room we sat within a couple of feet of Hardy, three times a week for two years. He lectured like Wanda Landowska playing Bach on the harpsichord: precise and totally lucid, but displaying his passionate pleasure to all who could see beneath the surface. Each lecture was carefully prepared, like a work of art, with the intellectual dénouement appearing as if spontaneously in the last five minutes of the hour. For me these lectures were an intoxicating joy, and I used to feel sometimes an impulse to hug that little old man with the white hair two feet away from me, to show him how desperately grateful we were to him for his willingness to go on talking.
— Freeman Dyson, Sun, Genome, & Internet (1999), pp. vii-viii
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/FreemanDysonQuotes.html
When I was 17 years old [1940] I came as a student to Cambridge University and got to know the famous mathematician Godfrey Hardy [64 years old]... He gave lectures on the pure mathematics that he loved to four or five students sittig around a small table in a small seminar room. In that little room we sat within a couple of feet of Hardy, three times a week for two years. He lectured like Wanda Landowska playing Bach on the harpsichord: precise and totally lucid, but displaying his passionate pleasure to all who could see beneath the surface. Each lecture was carefully prepared, like a work of art, with the intellectual dénouement appearing as if spontaneously in the last five minutes of the hour. For me these lectures were an intoxicating joy, and I used to feel sometimes an impulse to hug that little old man with the white hair two feet away from me, to show him how desperately grateful we were to him for his willingness to go on talking.
— Freeman Dyson, Sun, Genome, & Internet (1999), pp. vii-viii
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/FreemanDysonQuotes.html
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