price INR 1428/=Book Summary of A Mathematician's Apology
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.
Details of Book: A Mathematician's Apology
| Book: | A Mathematician's Apology |
| Author: | G. H. Hardy, Godfrey H. Hardy, Charles Percy Snow |
| ISBN: | 0521427061 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780521427067,978-0521427067 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publishing Date: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Edition: | New Ed |
| Number of Pages: | 153 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 8.66 x 5.46 x 0.34 inches |
| Weight: | 195 grams |
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