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   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.

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   Mar 28, 2023 · A Mathematician's Apology. by. G. H. Hardy. Publication date. 1969-01-01. Publisher. Cambridge University. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.

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   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.

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   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.

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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.

   • Author: G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow

   • Publish Year: 1940

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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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   Is Greek mathematics a real thing?

   • Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand: as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys or ‘scholarship candidates’, but ‘Fellows of another college’.

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   Is there a real case for mathematics?

   • Any genuine mathematician must feel that it is not on these crude achievements that the real case for mathematics rests, that the popular reputation of mathematics is based largely on ignorance and confusion, and there is room for a more rational defence. At any rate, I am disposed to try to make one.

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   Is Greek mathematics 'permanent'?

   • The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand: as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys or ‘scholarship candidates’, but ‘Fellows of another college’. So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature.

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   What did a mathematician carry?

   • This consisted of three or four sweaters, an umbrella belonging to his sister, and a large envelope containing mathe matical manuscripts, such as a Ph.D. dissertation, a paper which he was refereeing for the Royal Society, or some tripos answers. He would explain

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   Is it possible to justify the life of a professional mathematician?

   • It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the 'utility'of his work. But here I must deal with a misconception. It is sometimes suggested that pure mathema ticians glory in the uselessness of their work*, and make it a boast that it has no practical applications.

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   Dec 19, 2023 · 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 aphorisms and idiosyncrasies, and his passion for cricket.