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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頁數:153
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出版時間:1992-1-31
價格:USD 21.00
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780521427067
叢書系列:Canto Classics
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  • 數學 
  • 傳記 
  • mathematics 
  • G.H.Hardy 
  • 哲學 
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  • 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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很有意思的小书。天才吐起槽真的酣畅淋漓,“年轻人应该自视甚高,但不应该愚蠢”,“好的工作都不是被‘谦逊的’人所做出来的”,书里辩白了数学家这种可爱的骄傲,来自于三点:1.智力上的好奇心,2.对职业的自豪感,3.抱负。“我做我所做之事乃是因为,它乃是我唯一完全能够...

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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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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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來生,請賜予我數學的天賦,讓我安心自在的馳騁在“無用”的數學想象裏

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看完的第一本全英文書

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老頭在最後一段寫得很感人,一個富有邏輯,自省,優雅的人

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為什麼要學數學?數學的實際意義在哪裏?數學的永恒不朽和普遍意義(permanence, immortality,generality)區彆於其他科學學科。應用數學或可有所實用,但純數學的價值在哪裏?

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