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What do you guys actually think of A Mathematician's Apology?

I read into it is this preoccupation with the idea of abstract math as the ultimate out from worldly concerns, and an obsession with status and success within ...

What was the impact of 'A Mathematician's Apology' by G. H. Hardy ...

It's been a very long time since I read A Mathematician's Apology in full. The impression that remains with me is that Hardy was saying that ...

Review of A Mathematician's Apology (G.H. Hardy) - Medium

It truly is great in my opinion, mainly because we find so much to disagree with in it. ... I also consider this essay a worthwhile read because ...

Reading more – A Mathematician's Apology

I was quite excited to read about the mathematician who discovered Ramanujan and how that really happened. I have to confess that the Foreword ...

Reviews of G H Hardy's Apology - MacTutor

An eminent mathematician has a particularly good chance of satisfying all these desires. Moreover, great mathematical gifts are so rarely accompanied by ...

A Mathematician's Apology (Review) | by Ian Sebastian - Medium

As it is basically truth, mathematical fame will last for much longer than the others, because when words and pictures change, ideas remain as ...

A Mathematician's Apology by GH Hardy - The Rabbit Hole

He was spiritually candid as few men are (I doubt if anyone could be more candid), and he had a mocking horror of pretentiousness, self- ...

A Mathematician's Apology - Review - YouTube

Dennis Pinshon reflects on 'A Mathematician's Apology by Hardy after finding it when clearing out his classroom on retirment.

Life-changing books: A Mathematician's Apology | New Scientist

I go back to the book all the time. In later life, it has become a book I love and hate. The opening sentences are especially poignant: “It is a ...

G.H.Hardy's, A Mathematician's Apology - Marco Learning Systems

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [1.] At the time I thought "He seems to have lost concentration here; let's hope it will be ...

In Defense of Pure Mathematics | American Scientist

As A Mathematician's Apology is now impossible to get, both first hand and second hand, I expect that you will in time be reprinting it; I think that it would ...

Are Mathematical Breakthroughs Limited to Youth? - Physics Forums

I just started reading GH Hardy's |A Mathematician's Apology;| a book that will probably scare and depress the crap out of me, because I ...

“A Mathematician's Apology” by G. H. Hardy

Canto Classics, Cambridge University Press. We start our series of reviews with this classic book about the (making of) mathematics, ...

A mathematician's apology - Clive on Learning

By definition, there are plenty of others to do that. You've undoubtedly spotted that Hardy was obsessed with classes of men, which may be a ...

Review of G. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology - BrothersJudd.com

The "apology" seems in many ways to be for not being the kind of surpassing genius who revolutionizes scientific/mathematical thought--a Newton, ...

A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy - Kvams

I just finished G.H. Hardy's 'A Mathematician's Apology,' and I intend to jot down some thoughts on it. I've been wanting to read this book ...

A Reflection on A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy

However, after the semester was over, I laughed. I got a good grade, but, more than that, I actually gained an even greater love for mathematics ...

A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy | Goodreads

... mathematician, but unfortunately I have no talent for such pursuits. ... people, since most people can do nothing at all well. ... How do you really feel? 77: A ...

"A Mathematician's Apology" | Book Review | LThMath - YouTube

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Hardy's Questions - Life Through A Mathematician's Eyes

Just because he is a mathematician, I believe he was afraid that mathematics could do more harm than good. At one point he talks about Number ...