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G. H. H. 18 July 1940. 1. It 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 mathema-ticians have done.
“The Apology” is Plato’s account of the three speeches that Socrates gave at his trial for false teaching and heresy in 399 B.C.E. At the age of 71, Socrates fought at his trial not for his life, but for the truth.
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This book begins by explaining why some men pursue mathematics, others literary studies, others chess or cricket. Mr Hardy reiterates his famous dictum that all good mathematics is useless - "the study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation."
As I had plenty of opportunities to realize in the future, Hardy had no faith in intuitions or impressions, his own or anyone else's. 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.
follows a series of episodes depicting David first as an outlaw leader, then as a Philistine mercenary, but all the while as a fugitive from Saul, until at last the king is slain in battle with the Philistines in 1 Sam. 31:1-13. The succeeding material in the early chapters of 2 Samuel.
The Apology. by Plato. I do not know, men of Athens, how my 17 accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
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Nov 20, 2020 · Notable features of the psychological literature on apology are the lack of a comprehensive theory of apology, the failure of authors to explicitly define the word and the absence of a generally accepted definition of apology among those who do provide a definition.
