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.
This is the reason we love Europe, the British Empire, and the nineteenth century. As Hardy himself said more than once in this essay, an "apology" is bound to be to some extent personal. Thus the reader's own life path and choices are sure to play a role i...
评分献给我最爱的数学家,一个对美疯狂执著着的人。 就像每一个在自己人生中有过伟大成就的人一样, 在自己年迈体弱,才华都逐渐萎缩,慢的可以感受到力量的流失的时候;在最后一刻,为自己的今生,为自己的人生意义总结。 Number Theory 数论,是数学各个分支中我最喜欢的。数字...
评分(注:同样内容在amazon.cn发表过,稍作修改) 近日花了些时间读了遍原文《A Mathematician's Apology》,又读了遍这本译文,与某书友的评述感觉正好相反,翻译得不错! // 特别是关于“不常见的人名“翻译注释,喜欢,如象棋手阿廖欣,棒球手,社交名人,一开始Hardy与之争...
评分献给我最爱的数学家,一个对美疯狂执著着的人。 就像每一个在自己人生中有过伟大成就的人一样, 在自己年迈体弱,才华都逐渐萎缩,慢的可以感受到力量的流失的时候;在最后一刻,为自己的今生,为自己的人生意义总结。 Number Theory 数论,是数学各个分支中我最喜欢的。数字...
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