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G.H. Hardy

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February 07, 1877 in Cranleigh, Surrey, The United Kingdom

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December 01, 1947

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Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.

Non-mathematicians usually know him for A Mathematician's Apology, his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman.

His relationship as mentor, from 1914 onwards, of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan has become celebrated. Hardy almost immediately recognized Ramanujan's extraordinary albeit untutored brilliance, and Hardy and Ramanujan became close collaborators. In an interview by Paul Erdős, when Hardy was asked what his greatest contribution to mathematics was, Hardy unhe...more

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	A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy, C.P. Snow (Foreword by) 3.90 avg rating — 640 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	My rating:
	An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Divergent Series 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Inequalities 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Course of Pure Mathematics 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — 15 editions	My rating:
	Bertrand Russell and Trinity 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Integration of Functions of a Single Variable 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Orders of Infinity, the 'Infinitärcalcül' of Paul Du Bois-Reymond 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Collected Papers Of G.H. Hardy: Including Joint Papers With J.E. Littlewood And Others Volume 7 (V. 7) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The General Theory of Dirichlet's Series by G.H. Hardy, Marcel Riesz, Mathematics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by G.H. Hardy

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
― G.H. Hardy

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“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

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“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics, history sometimes plays strange tricks; Rolle figures in the textbooks of elementary calculus as if he had been a mathematician like Newton; Farey is immortal because he failed to understand a theorem which Haros had proved perfectly fourteen years before; the names of five worthy Norwegians still stand in Abel’s Life, just for one act of conscientious imbecility, dutifully performed at the expense of their country’s greatest man. But on the whole the history of science is fair, and this is particularly true in mathematics. No other subject has such clear-cut or unanimously accepted standards, and the men who are remembered are almost always the men who merit it. Mathematical fame, if you have the cash to pay for it, is one of the soundest and steadiest of investments.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

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