A Mathematician's Apology
$42.90
- Paperback
154 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2012
Summary
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, 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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107604636 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 110760463X |
| Author: | G.H. Hardy, C.P. Snow |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 154 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 138mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Canto Classics |
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‘Hardy provides an amazing insight into the mind of the mathematician.’ Marcus du Sautoy, The Week
‘A classic tale of retrospection considering wider, powerful themes in mathematics.’ Mathematics Today‘Hardy provides an amazing insight into the mind of the mathematician.’ Marcus du Sautoy, The Week‘Hardy provides an amazing insight into the mind of the mathematician.’ Marcus du Sautoy, Waitrose Weekend Magazine
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