Godfrey Harold Hardy fue un destacado matemático inglés, reconocido por sus logros en teoría de números y análisis matemático. El público no especializado lo conoce principalmente por su ensayo de 1940, 'A Mathematician's Apology', que explora la estética de las matemáticas. Este escrito es considerado una de las mejores visiones sobre la mente de un matemático para el público general. La relación de Hardy como mentor y colaborador cercano del matemático indio Srinivasa Ramanujan, cuya extraordinaria y autodidacta brillantez percibió de inmediato, se convirtió en una célebre asociación. El propio Hardy consideró el descubrimiento de Ramanujan como su mayor contribución y describió su colaboración como 'el único incidente romántico de mi vida'.
This classic calculus text remains a must-read for all students of introductory mathematical analysis. Clear, rigorous explanations of the mathematics of analytical number theory and calculus cover single-variable calculus, sequences, number series, more. 1921 edition.
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 as his mathematical powers were declining, 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 aphorisms and 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.
Originally published in 1910 as number twelve in the Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics series, this book provides an up-to-date version of Du Bois-Reymond's Infinitarcalcul by the celebrated English mathematician G. H. Hardy. This tract will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of mathematics or the theory of functions."