A Mathematician's Apology (Canto): Amazon.de: G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 153 Seiten
Verlag: Cambridge University Press; Auflage: Reprint (31. Januar 1992)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0521427061
ISBN-13: 978-0521427067
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 22 x 13,9 x 0,9 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 88.782 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
- Nr. 89 in Englische Bücher > Fachb�cher > Mathematik > Mathematische Analyse

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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

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'Generations of readers, both in and out of mathematics, have read Apology as one of the most eloquent descriptions in our language of the pleasure and power of mathematical invention.' The New Yorker

'Great mathematicians rarely write about themselves or about their work, and few of them would have the literary gift to compose an essay of such charm, candour and insight … a manifesto for mathematics itself.' The Guardian

'Hardy's book is carefully reasoned, beautifully written and very stimulating; … it can profitably be read by anyone.' New Scientist

'A beautiful book written by a leading mathematician of the time.' BBC Focus

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Intelligent and moving, a great book. 22. Juli 1998

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Godfrey Hardy was a great mathematician, and then some! His Apology is a discourse on the beauty of mathematics and, especially, of a life devouted to mathematical investigation. The author has, at the time of writing, passed his prime, and , being Hardy, does it no more. That's why it is moving, although, given the British love for understatement, this is really very subtle. The novelist C.P.Snow writes a brilliant introduction (actually larger that the Apology itself) on the figure of Hardy. You'll never forget either!

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a thoughtfull book 6. Dezember 1999

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There is surprisingly little mathematics in this book- and of the more understandable kind- because hardy's subject is not really mathematics but creativity. like Wilde hardy thinks that all art- and literature and philosophy and music and theology and mathematics- is quite useless, but that they nonetheless provide us with the best and deepest moments in life. Why this is so and why people keep returning to these pursuits, that's what the apology is about. hardy wrote it in the twilight of his carreer, but the overall tone of resigned sadness does not stop it from being very humorous and uplifting. I can recommend it to everyone who likes to read a thoughtfull and original book, whatever the subject.

Great Read... 25. Juni 1999

I enjoyed this book immensely. I was at a stage where I wasn't too inspired by mathematics, but it really got me into the discipline again. I have read few other works that summarize passion so well...

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I believe that the two biggest compliments a math author can get are first to have Graham Greene write: "the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist". Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 23. Oktober 2005 von Palle E T Jorgensen

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