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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, 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 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.… (altro)
kalashnikov: Ian Stewart has been quoted as saying that 'Letters to a Young Mathematician' is intended to be an update and an expansion to 'A Mathematician's Apology'.
Fascinating account of the world of the mathematician in the early 20th century. Sober perspective on the nature of mathematics, and its utility. Interestingly the world of Hardy has been dramatically changed by computation: today I believe he would see applied mathematics in a very different light. ( )
Hard to figure which readership this might interest. Mathematicians will have already wrestled privately with the issues raised and arrived at most of Hardy's conclusions; others may care little. Still a fairly interesting read (for one with a Math degree) but marred seriously by its brevity: 52 pages of large print. A mathematician who worked with Srinivasa Ramanujan could have afforded a anecdote concerning this most profoundly interesting genius. ( )
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To JOHN LOMAS who asked me to write it
Incipit
Per un matematico di professione è un'esperienza melanconica mettersi a scrivere sulla matematica.
Citazioni
Un uomo che si chieda continuamente se val la pena di fare quello che fa, e se è la persona giusta per farlo, non concluderà mai nulla di buono e scoraggerà anche gli altri. Bisogna chiudere un po' gli occhi e sopravvalutare leggermente se stessi e la propria materia. Non è una cosa tanto difficile: è molto più difficile evitare di rendere ridicoli se stessi e la propria materia tenendo gli occhi troppo chiusi.
Noi scegliamo i nostri amici non perché incarnano tutte le virtù dell'umanità, ma perché sono quello che sono. È la stessa cosa in matematica; una proprietà comune a troppi oggetti difficilmente suscita l'entusiasmo, e le stesse idee diventano indistinte se non possiedono una grande individualità.
Ultime parole
La sola difesa della mia vita, allora, o di chiunque sia stato matematico nello stesso mio senso, è dunque questa: ho aggiunto qualcosa al sapere e ho aiutato altri ad aumentarlo ancora; il valore dei miei contributi si differenzia soltanto in grado, e non in natura, dalle creazioni dei grandi matematici, o di tutti gli altri artisti, grandi e piccoli, che hanno lasciato qualche traccia dietro di loro.
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, 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 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.
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of mathematics, and its utility. Interestingly the world of Hardy has been dramatically changed by computation: today I believe he would see applied mathematics in a very different light. (