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 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 wha...
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