Mathematics offers its practitioners refuge from a mad world

Evidence

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 281

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 281
• XREF: connects to: Applied mathematicians must discard their finest ideas for failing to match reality — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 270; Mathematics boot camps functioned to suppress questioning of economic orthodoxy — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 460