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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

   • Author: G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow

   • Publish Year: 1940

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   A Mathematician’s Apology. 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.

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   A Mathematician's Apology is perhaps the most concise piece every written describing the creative process of doing mathematics. Its author, G H Hardy, a world-class theorist of the period between the great wars, describes his attraction to mathematics, defending the role of the pure mathematician.

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   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'.

   • Author: J. F. Randolph, G. H. Hardy

   • Publish Year: 1942

5. ia800904.us.archive.org › 9 › itemsAnAnnotated Mathematician’s Apology - Internet Archive

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   theApologybyCambridgeUniversityPresshavethesamepage divisions,butthepagenumberingofthefirsteditiondiffersfrom thatofthe1967editionandsubsequentreprintings.Inthemargin,

6. faculty.sgc.edu › rkelley › The Apology of SocratesTHE APOLOGY OF SOCRA TRANSLATED BY PLATO BY

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   “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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   What is a mathematician's apology?

   • 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.

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   Who should read a mathematician's apology?

   • Although A Mathematician's Apology is addressed to non-mathematicians, it should appeal to any thoughtful man, mathematician or not. Its purpose is to answer the questions, "Why is it really worth while to study mathematics? What is the proper justification of a mathematician's life?"

   Hardy apology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   When was a mathematician's apology published?

   • The following lists of editions, excerpts, and trans-lations of A Mathematician’s Apology and printings of ‘Mathe-matics in war-time’ are, to the best of the annotator’s knowledge, complete. First published by Cambridge University Press, 1940; New York: the Macmillan Company, 1940.

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   What is Modesitt's apology?

   • Modesitt, a mathematician, held the Apology to be appealing to any thoughtful person, and to be a challenge to readers to scru-tinize the justification for their own lives as closely and frankly as Hardy did.

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   Where can I find a copy of a mathematician's apology?

   • For a copy of this licence, visit Although G. H. Hardy, in his mathematical writing, was ‘above the average in his care to cite others and provide bibli-ographies in his books’,1 A Mathematician’s Apology is filled with quotations, allusions, and references that are often unsourced.

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   What was Graham Greene's 'apology'?

   • 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.

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8. www2.hawaii.edu › ~freeman › coursesThe Apology - University of Hawaiʻi

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   Socrates, Roman mural 1 st century. 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.