A Mathematician's Apology

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A Mathematician's Apology is a profoundly sad book, the memoir of a man who has reached the end of his ambition, who can no longer effectively practice the art that has consumed him since he was a boy. But at the same time, it is a joyful celebration of the subject--and a stern lecture to those who would sully it by dilettantism or attempts to make it merely useful. "The mathematician's patterns," G.H. Hardy declares, "like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

Hardy was, in his own words, "for a short time the fifth best pure mathematician in the world" and knew full well that "no mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." In a long biographical foreword to Apology, C.P. Snow (now best known for The Two Cultures) offers invaluable background and a context for his friend's occasionally brusque tone: "His life remained the life of a brilliant young man until he was old; so did his spirit: his games, his interests, kept the lightness of a young don's. And, like many men who keep a young man's interests into their sixties, his last years were the darker for it." Reading Snow's recollections of Hardy's Cambridge University years only makes Apology more poignant. Hardy was popular, a terrific conversationalist, and a notoriously good cricket player.

When summer came, it was taken for granted that we should meet at the cricket ground.... He used to walk round the cinderpath with a long, loping, clumping-footed stride (he was a slight spare man, physically active even in his late fifties, still playing real tennis), head down, hair, tie, sweaters, papers all flowing, a figure that caught everyone's eyes. "There goes a Greek poet, I'll be bound," once said some cheerful farmer as Hardy passed the score-board.

G.H. Hardy's elegant 1940 memoir has provided generations of mathematicians with pithy quotes and examples for their office walls, and plenty of inspiration to either be great or find something else to do. He is a worthy mentor, a man who understood deeply and profoundly the rewards and losses of true devotion. --Therese Littleton

出版者:Cambridge University Press
作者:G. H. Hardy
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页数:153
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出版时间:1992-1-31
价格:USD 21.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780521427067
丛书系列:Canto Classics
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  • G.H.Hardy 
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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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英国大数学家哈代(Godfrey Harold Hardy)写过一本叫《一个数学家的辩白》(A Mathematician's Apology)的小书,至今亦广为流传,可惜我孤陋寡闻,上了大学才知道:那时刚上大学,喜欢吹水的小舟老师经常会在课堂上大谈数学的好处以及他的个人经历,这就正如哈代在书中所说的...  

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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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今天读了哈代《一个数学家的自白》,一些想法挺有意思的,记录一下: 1)政治家藐视政论家,画家看不起艺术评论家...;解释,评判,欣赏都是二流头脑干的事情。 2)正如历史所证明的那样,不管其内在价值如何,在所有成就中,数学的成就是最持久的。(巴比伦文明消散,但60进...  

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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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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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数学家特有的贵族气质

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"Ambition is a noble passion..." 英伦摇滚风啊。

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数学家特有的贵族气质

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1)数学是一流的,谈论数学的学问是二流的,正如文学之于文学批评。2)纯粹数学是真正的数学,应用数学是trivial的。3)对纯粹数学的辩护是美学的,而非实用的。至少纯粹数学是最无害的。4)其实最好的辩护是:如果再年轻一次,还是选择做数学家。5)老了就做不了数学了,数学是创造性的,而非沉思,属于年轻人。

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没想到在单位图书馆淘汰的书里捡到宝,还是1967年剑桥精装版。

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