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A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy which defends the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake.
- G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow
- 1940
As fifty or more years have passed since the death of the author, this book is now in the public domain in the Dominion of Canada. First Electronic Edition, Version 1.0 March 2005. Published by the University of Alberta Mathematical Sciences Society. Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/mss/ To . JOHN LOMAS.
Feb 2, 2019 · The works of G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), including ‘A Mathematician's Apology’ and ‘Mathematics in war-time’ are in the public domain. The annotations and the essays on the context, reviews, and legacy of the ‘Apology’ © 2019–24 Alan J. Cain.
Is mathematics, what I and other mathematicians mean by mathematics, worth doing; and if so, why? I have been looking again at the first pages of the inaugural lecture which I gave at Oxford in 1920, where there is an outline of an apology for mathematics.
In A Mathematician’s Apology G.H. Hardy estimates that only five or ten people in a hundred can do something “rather well.” Considerably fewer are really gifted. We do not each have a valuable talent waiting for discovery.
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Mar 26, 2012 · 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...
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Summary. I t is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.
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