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A mathematicians apology

A discussion on the beauty of mathematics.

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  • "Bertrand Russell et le Collège de la Trinité"
  • "Ramanujan : un mathématicien indien"
  • "Mathematic's apology"
  • "Apologie d'un mathématicien"
  • "Bertrand Russell et le Collège de la trinité"
  • "Ramanujan, un mathématicien indien"
  • "A mathematician's apology"@it
  • "A mathematician's apology"@tr

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  • "Quatre textes dépeignent la vie et l'engagement dans son époque d'un grand mathématicien anglais contemporain."
  • "A discussion on the beauty of mathematics."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "One of the main themes of the book is the beauty that mathematics possess, which Hardy compares to painting and poetry. For Hardy, the most beautiful mathematics was that which had no applications in the outside world, by which he meant pure mathematics, and, in particular, his own special field of number theory. He justifies the pursuit of pure mathematics with the argument that its very "uselessness" meant that it could not be misused to cause harm. On the other hand, Hardy denigrates applied mathematics, describing it as "ugly", "trivial" and "dull.""

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  • "Úvahy"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biographies"
  • "Biografie"
  • "Biography"
  • "Records and correspondence"
  • "Records and correspondence"@it
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Biographie"
  • "Chinese literature"

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  • "A mathematicians apology"
  • "A mathematicians apology"@en
  • "A Mathematicians : Apology"@en
  • "A mathematician's apology. With a foreword by C.P. Snow"@en
  • "Yi ge shu xue jia de bian bai"
  • "Hardy 1877-1947 : l'apologie d'un mathématicien : [autobiographie]"
  • "一个数学家的辩白"
  • "Yi wei zhi ye shu xue jia de bian bai"
  • "Apologia di un matematico"
  • "Apologia di un matematico"@it
  • "一位職業數學家的辯白"
  • "Apología de un matemático"@es
  • "Apología de un matemático"
  • "Hardy, 1877-1947 : l'apologie d'un mathématicien"
  • "Mathematician's Apology"
  • "˜Aœ mathematician's apology"
  • "A mathematician's apology"@en
  • "A mathematician's apology"
  • "A Mathematician's Apology"
  • "Ē apologia enos mathēmatikou"
  • "Bir matematikçinin savunması"
  • "Bir matematikçinin savunması"@tr
  • "Obrana matematikova"
  • "Apologie van een wiskundige"
  • "一个数学家的辩白 = A mathematician's apology"
  • "A mathematicianʼs apology"
  • "Yi ge shu xue jia de bian bai = A mathematician's apology"
  • "A Mathematician's apology"
  • "A Mathematician's apology"@it
  • "Matemaatikon apologia"@fi
  • "A mathematician's apology. Reprinted, with a foreword by C.P. Snow"@en
  • "Málsvörn stærðfræðings"
  • "Hardy, 1877-1947 : l'apologie d'un mathématicien ; Ramanujan, un mathématicien indien ; Bertrand Russell et le Collège de la Trinité"

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