TY  - GEN
T1  - A mathematician's apology
A1  - Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947
A2  - Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 1992
ED  - Canto edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm47011192
AB  - G.H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C.P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. 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. 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. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times.
OP  - 153
CN  - QA7 .H3 1967eb
SN  - 051100737X
SN  - 9780511007378
SN  - 9781139644112
SN  - 1139644114
SN  - 9780521427067
SN  - 0521427061
SN  - 9781107604636
SN  - 110760463X
SN  - 9781107387669
SN  - 1107387663
SN  - 9781107295599
SN  - 1107295599
KW  - Hardy, G. H. : (Godfrey Harold)
KW  - Mathematics.
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathématiques.
KW  - MATHEMATICS : Pre-Calculus.
KW  - MATHEMATICS : Reference.
KW  - MATHEMATICS : Essays.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -