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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. Central to Hardy's "apology" – in the sense of a formal justification or defence (as in Plato 's Apology of Socrates) – is an argument that mathematics has value independent of its applications.
- G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow
- 1940
G. H. Hardy. First Published November 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.
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.
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.
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'.
- G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow
- 1940
Jan 31, 1992 · A Mathematician's Apology. G. H. Hardy. Cambridge University Press, Jan 31, 1992 - Mathematics - 153 pages. G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among...
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The only way to assess someone's knowledge, in Hardy's view, was to examine him. That went for mathe matics, literature, philosophy, politics, anything you like. If the man had bluffed and then wilted under the questions, that was his lookout. First things came first, in that brilliant and concentrated mind.
