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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.
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
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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.
G. H. Hardy is usually known by those outside the field of mathematics for his 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology, often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layperson.
in Section 6 that he did talk about mathematics in his 1920 Oxford inaugural lecture, which actually contains an apology for mathematics. Further in 1921, he gave an address on Goldbach's theorem to the Mathematical Society of Copenhagen. In this, he did talk about what he and other mathematicians had done.
A Mathematician’s Apology. An account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times; view the preview here. G. H. Hardy's 'apology', written in 1940, offers an engaging account of mathematics as much more than a science.
Hardy was a great mathematician who revitalized British pure mathematics after a dull nineteenth century. He is also famous for his disparagement of applied mathemat- Apology at the beginning of a war that was destined to change the relationship of sci- ence to society forever.
