Godfrey Harold Hardy was een vooraanstaand Engels wiskundige, bekend om zijn prestaties op het gebied van getaltheorie en wiskundige analyse. Niet-wiskundigen kennen hem vooral van 'A Mathematician's Apology', zijn essay uit 1940 over de esthetiek van de wiskunde, dat wordt beschouwd als een van de beste inzichten in de geest van een werkende wiskundige voor leken. Hardy's rol als mentor en nauwe medewerker van de Indiase wiskundige Srinivasa Ramanujan, wiens buitengewone, ongeschoolde genialiteit hij onmiddellijk herkende, is gevierd. Hardy beschouwde de ontdekking van Ramanujan zelf als zijn grootste bijdrage en omschreef hun samenwerking als 'het enige romantische voorval in mijn leven'.
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."