Godfrey Harold Hardy war ein herausragender englischer Mathematiker, der für seine Leistungen in der Zahlentheorie und mathematischen Analysis bekannt ist. Laien kennen ihn hauptsächlich durch seine Abhandlung 'A Mathematician's Apology' aus dem Jahr 1940, die sich mit der Ästhetik der Mathematik befasst. Diese Schrift gilt als einer der besten Einblicke in das Denken eines Mathematikers für Nicht-Fachleute. Seine Rolle als Mentor und enger Kollaborateur des indischen Mathematikers Srinivasa Ramanujan, dessen außergewöhnliches Talent Hardy sofort erkannte, ist berühmt geworden. Hardy selbst betrachtete die Entdeckung Ramanujans als seinen größten Beitrag und bezeichnete ihre Zusammenarbeit als 'den einen romantischen Zwischenfall in meinem Leben'.
This classic calculus text remains a must-read for all students of introductory mathematical analysis. Clear, rigorous explanations of the mathematics of analytical number theory and calculus cover single-variable calculus, sequences, number series, more. 1921 edition.
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.
Originally published in 1910 as number twelve in the Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics series, this book provides an up-to-date version of Du Bois-Reymond's Infinitarcalcul by the celebrated English mathematician G. H. Hardy. This tract will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of mathematics or the theory of functions."