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A Mathematician's Apology

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Charles Percy Snow (intro);

A Mathematician's Apology

Cambridge University Press, 1992, 153 pages

ISBN 0521427061, 9780521427067

topics: |  autobiography | math | philosophy


Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek
literature.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because
languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a
silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of
whatever it may mean. p.81


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009