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.
想看此书的读者最好作如下两个选择:1。看原版(湖南科学技术出版社有,不过那书把目录里的序言作者名字写错了,唉……),体会一下HARDY的英文水平;2。看李文林教授的翻译版本(有个出版社出了系列的数学大家文选),脱离数学大环境单纯阅读文本有些味道就体会不出来了。 ...
评分 评分读了第二遍并仔细做了笔记,比第一遍读后的理解清晰了许多。 如果十年前读到此书,我的感想一定是“数学家真纯粹啊做研究真高大上啊我也要”,现在我读后的感想是,我不敢说哈代有失偏颇,但是我清楚地知道自己和他意见不同,我也接受这不是一个需要我惊慌失措赶紧校正自己三观...
评分想看此书的读者最好作如下两个选择:1。看原版(湖南科学技术出版社有,不过那书把目录里的序言作者名字写错了,唉……),体会一下HARDY的英文水平;2。看李文林教授的翻译版本(有个出版社出了系列的数学大家文选),脱离数学大环境单纯阅读文本有些味道就体会不出来了。 ...
评分第一次i听说Hardy的这本书是在Du Sautoy的Finding Moonshine。在介绍反证法的时候,Du Sautoy引用Hardy对比数学和象棋技巧的一句话,“It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematici...
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