G.H. Hardy

(1877–1947) Mathematician

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G.H. Hardy was a mathematician.

Quick Facts About G.H. Hardy

Born: February 7, 1877
Died: December 1, 1947
Profession: Mathematician

About G.H. Hardy

[Wikidata] British mathematician (1877–1947)... | [Wikipedia] Godfrey Harold Hardy was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

Quotes by G.H. Hardy

“The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek…

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Books

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“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to…

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Applications

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“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that…

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Applications

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“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics,…

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Death

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“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful…

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Applications

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“It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that…

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Applied

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“The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.”

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Consequence

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“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have…

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Artist

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“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever…

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Mathematics

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“I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, 'Well, I…

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Collaboration

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“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line…

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Beauty

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“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals…

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Common sense

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“It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a…

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Mathematics

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“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example…

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Applied

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G.H. Hardy by topic

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