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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  • 傳記 
  • mathematics 
  • 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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想看此书的读者最好作如下两个选择:1。看原版(湖南科学技术出版社有,不过那书把目录里的序言作者名字写错了,唉……),体会一下HARDY的英文水平;2。看李文林教授的翻译版本(有个出版社出了系列的数学大家文选),脱离数学大环境单纯阅读文本有些味道就体会不出来了。 ...  

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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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这学期上的数学课名字很好听,叫The Art of Mathematical Thinking,是一门连接初等数学和高等数学的桥梁课程,主要用来学习怎么规范地写证明。开学不多久去和教授聊天,得知我准备主修数学和哲学之后给我看了一本小说,第一页的那句话摘自Hardy大叔的这本书,于是顺藤摸瓜从图...  

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读了第二遍并仔细做了笔记,比第一遍读后的理解清晰了许多。 如果十年前读到此书,我的感想一定是“数学家真纯粹啊做研究真高大上啊我也要”,现在我读后的感想是,我不敢说哈代有失偏颇,但是我清楚地知道自己和他意见不同,我也接受这不是一个需要我惊慌失措赶紧校正自己三观...  

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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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對數學傢與數學的探討深入淺齣,不涉及任何艱深的數學知識。一個偉大數學傢晚年直抒胸臆的告白縈繞著淡泊而又動人心魄的悲傷,其深厚內涵已超越數學,任何創造性工作者都能從中找到共鳴。文筆冷靜精準,邏輯如數學證明般簡約明晰,全篇有希臘雕塑般的純淨高冷。

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邏輯有問題。不過作為情書,邏輯問題也很美。

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雖然聰明絕頂,但這傢夥的理性之中卻暗藏著難以控製的武斷。數學傢對於他的事業也是用情至深的。

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悲觀地辯護著數學的“純粹美”。為瞭降低“花甲Hardy”消極情緒的負麵影響,務必與Wiener,“I Am a Mathematician”,和Halmos," I want to be a mathematician"一並依次閱讀,喜感將逐步上升——不傷身,不傷神。(Btw, Snow的序言很八卦很有趣)

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