G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology (Paperback) Canto Classics

Further DetailsTitle: A Mathematician's ApologyCondition: NewEAN: 9781107604636ISBN: 9781107604636Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/26/2012Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 215mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 9mmItem Weight: 230gAuthor: G. H. HardyContributor: C. P. Snow (Foreword by)Genre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Canto ClassicsRelease Year: 2012

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