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.
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英國大數學傢哈代(Godfrey Harold Hardy)寫過一本叫《一個數學傢的辯白》(A Mathematician's Apology)的小書,至今亦廣為流傳,可惜我孤陋寡聞,上瞭大學纔知道:那時剛上大學,喜歡吹水的小舟老師經常會在課堂上大談數學的好處以及他的個人經曆,這就正如哈代在書中所說的...
評分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...
評分第一次i聽說Hardy的這本書是在Du Sautoy的Finding Moonshine。在介紹反證法的時候,Du Sautoy引用Hardy對比數學和象棋技巧的一句話,“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...
評分 評分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...
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