A Mathematician's Apology

摘要: G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician … the purest pure'. He also, C. P. Snow recounts in Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written 1940 powers were declining, offers brilliant and engaging account mathematics very much more than science; when it first published, Graham Greene hailed alongside Henry James's notebooks 'the best what like be creative artist'. Snow's Foreword gives sympathetic witty insights into Hardy's life, with its rich store anecdotes concerning collaboration Indian Ramanujan, aphorisms idiosyncrasies, passion for cricket. is unique fascination most compelling exponents modern times.