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A mathematician's apology
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A mathematician's apology
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ISBN: 9781107604636 110760463X 9781107295599 1139893882 1107390583 1107395380 1107387663 1107398991 1107295599 9781107398993 9781107386853 1107386853 9781139893886 9781107390584 9781107395381 9781107387669 1322521352 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1940, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published, Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry James's notebooks as 'the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist'. C. P. Snow's Foreword gives sympathetic and witty insights into Hardy's life, with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan, his idiosyncrasies and his passion for cricket. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times.

L'apologie d'un mathématicien. Ramanujan, un mathématicien indien. Bertrand Russell et le Collège de la Trinité
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ISBN: 2701105307 9782701105307 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Belin


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Collected papers of G. H. Hardy : including joint papers with J. E. Littlewood and others
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Year: 1966 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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From servant to queen : a journey through Victorian Mathematics
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ISBN: 1316415724 1108669581 110860417X 1107124131 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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With a few notable exceptions, pure mathematics in Britain at the beginning of the nineteenth century was mainly a recreation for amateurs. Drawing on primary sources, John Heard provides an engaging account of the process by which it rose to become an academic discipline of repute which by the First World War was led by G. H. Hardy, and supported by the internationally-respected London Mathematical Society. In chronicling that rise, this book describes key contributions and the social environment in which mathematicians operated, using contemporary commentary where appropriate. No mathematical knowledge is required, and readers with a wide range of interests and backgrounds will find much to enjoy here. The material is presented from an impartial point of view, and provides full references to help any researchers who want to dig deeper into the original sources. The result is a unique insight into the world of Victorian mathematics and science.

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