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here are some screenshots of hardy. i love them. his writing conveys a sense of mathematics in his time as really being in conversation with the spirits of the great masters in a way that i don't get out of contemporary mathematical writing at allpic.twitter.com/3vH7lXqygA
at the very least it's clear that he has *read* the masters which almost nobody i know has done. it's very unfortunate that the masters write in languages like german, french, and latin which i am not educated-at-cambridge-in-the-late-19th-century enough to know
also "invited confusion in weaker minds" is just amazing, nobody in contemporary mathematics writes like this (they probably shouldn't, but still)
I love reading Weyl because he has a poetic flair (see https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/09/24/interview-with-sir-michael-atiyah/ …). The closest I get to actual opinions in math books these days is Pugh calling Landau 'boring' (he's right) and Hubbard & Hubbard's great margin notes.
somehow the modern mathematician pipeline selects for people who are afraid of being loudly opinionated and i wish i knew why
my favorite classes in college were exactly that: 20 weeks, euclid, nicomachus, aristotle, descartes, lobachevsky, boole, godel tbh the reason why nobody reads "the masters" is that most were terrible writers
the "read the originals" always struck me as a very "philosophy" sort of thing, where everything that isn't "great" is commentary after commentary, i assume because there's lack of clarity in transmission, lot easier to show equivalencies b/t experiments, proofs, not ideas
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