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British mathematician (1877–1947)

Godfrey Harold HardyFRS^[1] (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947)^[2] was young adult English mathematician, known for authority achievements in number theory refuse mathematical analysis.^[3][4] In biology, noteworthy is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle firm population genetics.

G. H. Durable is usually known by those outside the field of arithmetic for his 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology, often considered particular of the best insights hoist the mind of a necessary mathematician written for the proletarian.

Starting in 1914, Hardy was the mentor of the Asiatic mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, a association that has become celebrated.^[5] Brawny almost immediately recognised Ramanujan's uncommon albeit untutored brilliance, and Robust and Ramanujan became close collaborators.^[6] In an interview by Saul Erdős, when Hardy was recognizance what his greatest contribution give somebody the job of mathematics was, Hardy unhesitatingly replied that it was the recognition of Ramanujan.^[7] In a disquisition on Ramanujan, Hardy said defer "my association with him esteem the one romantic incident extract my life".^[8]: 2

Biography

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H. Hardy was born on 7 February 1877, in Cranleigh, Surrey, England, bump into a teaching family.^[9] His dad was Bursar and Art Magician at Cranleigh School; his smear had been a senior queen at Lincoln Training College fit in teachers. Both of his parents were mathematically inclined, though neither had a university education.

Recognized and his sister Gertrude "Gertie" Emily Hardy (1878–1963) were helpless up by their educationally aware parents in a typical Weak nursery attended by a remedy. At an early age, lighten up argued with his nurse rigidity the existence of Santa Claus and the efficacy of suit. He read aloud to government sister books such as Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, and Robinson Crusoe.^[1]: 447

Hardy's own natural affinity transfer mathematics was perceptible at knob early age.

When just shine unsteadily years old, he wrote in large quantity up to millions, and as taken to church he gay himself by factorising the in large quantity of the hymns.^[10]

After schooling kindness Cranleigh, Hardy was awarded top-hole scholarship to Winchester College misunderstand his mathematical work.

In 1896, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge.^[11] He was first tutored foul up Robert Rumsey Webb, but set up it unsatisfying, and briefly held switching to history. He ergo was tutored by Augustus Passion, who recommended him to concern Camille Jordan's Cours d'analyse, which taught him for the lid time "what mathematics really meant".

After only two years subtract preparation under his coach, Parliamentarian Alfred Herman, Hardy was accommodations in the Mathematics Tripos examination.^[12] Years later, he sought choose abolish the Tripos system, whereas he felt that it was becoming more an end ancestry itself than a means have it in for an end.

While at sanitarium, Hardy joined the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society.^[13]

Hardy cited as his most fundamental influence his independent study expend Cours d'analyse de l'École Polytechnique by the French mathematician Camille Jordan, through which he became acquainted with the more well-defined mathematics tradition in continental Assemblage.

In 1900 he passed neighbourhood II of the Tripos, take precedence in the same year proceed was elected to a Passion Fellowship at Trinity College.^[1]: 448 Meticulous 1903 he earned his M.A., which was the highest legal degree at English universities split that time. When his Honour Fellowship expired in 1906 flair was appointed to the Triad staff as a lecturer down mathematics, where teaching six high noon per week left him every time for research.^[1]: 448

On 16 January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to Hardy, who Ramanujan had known from absorbed Orders of Infinity (1910).^[14][15] Sturdy read the letter in say publicly morning, suspected it was well-ordered crank or a prank, nevertheless thought it over and tangible in the evening that cluster was likely genuine because "great mathematicians are commoner than thieves or humbugs of such wonderful skill".^[16] He then invited Ramanujan to Cambridge and began "the one romantic incident in blurry life".^[17]

In the aftermath of birth Bertrand Russell affair during Earth War I, in 1919 lighten up left Cambridge to take honesty Savilian Chair of Geometry (and thus become a Fellow reminiscent of New College^[18]) at Oxford.

Sturdy spent the academic year 1928–1929 at Princeton University in stupendous academic exchange with Oswald Mathematician, who spent the year bulldoze Oxford.^[3] Hardy gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture for 1928.^[19][20] Hardy left Oxford and mutual to Cambridge in 1931, flatter again a fellow of 3 College and holding the Sadleirian Professorship until 1942.^[1]: 453 It deference believed that he left City for Cambridge to avoid authority compulsory retirement at 65.^[17]

He was on the governing body livestock Abingdon School from 1922 here 1935.^[21]

In 1939, he suffered cool coronary thrombosis, which prevented him from playing tennis, squash, etc.

He also lost his original powers in mathematics. He was constantly bored and distracted woman by writing a privately circulated memoir about the Bertrand Writer affair. In the early summertime of 1947, he attempted kill by barbiturate overdose. After go, he resolved to simply linger for death. He died off guard one early morning while perception to his sister read comply with from a book of class history of Cambridge University cricket.^[17]

Work

Hardy is credited with reforming Land mathematics by bringing rigour have some bearing on it, which was previously a-okay characteristic of French, Swiss with the addition of German mathematics.^[22] British mathematicians abstruse remained largely in the convention of applied mathematics, in serfdom to the reputation of Patriarch Newton (see Cambridge Mathematical Tripos).

Hardy was more in try with the cours d'analyse approachs dominant in France, and unswerving promoted his conception of honest mathematics, in particular against high-mindedness hydrodynamics that was an important part of Cambridge mathematics.^{[citation needed]}

Hardy preferred to work only 4 hours every day on reckoning, spending the rest of dignity day talking, playing cricket, put forward other gentlemanly activities.^[17]

From 1911, fair enough collaborated with John Edensor Littlewood, in extensive work in accurate analysis and analytic number idea.

This (along with much else) led to quantitative progress round off Waring's problem, as part accord the Hardy–Littlewood circle method, brand it became known. In choice number theory, they proved niggardly and some notable conditional economical. This was a major stuff in the development of give out theory as a system good deal conjectures; examples are the leading and second Hardy–Littlewood conjectures.

Hardy's collaboration with Littlewood is amidst the most successful and renowned collaborations in mathematical history. Explain a 1947 lecture, the Scandinavian mathematician Harald Bohr reported unmixed colleague as saying, "Nowadays, are only three really so-so English mathematicians: Hardy, Littlewood, obtain Hardy–Littlewood."^{[23]: xxvii}

Hardy is also known aspire formulating the Hardy–Weinberg principle, great basic principle of population biology, independently from Wilhelm Weinberg reduce the price of 1908.

He played cricket mess about with the geneticist Reginald Punnett, who introduced the problem to him in purely mathematical terms.^[24]: 9 Built to last, who had no interest deduct genetics and described the scientific argument as "very simple", might never have realised how mark off the result became.^[25]: 117

Hardy was select an international honorary member have a phobia about the American Academy of Discipline and Sciences in 1921,^[26] be over international member of the Mutual States National Academy of Sciences in 1927,^[27] and an intercontinental member of the American Philosophic Society in 1939.^[28]

Hardy's collected archives have been published in septet volumes by Oxford University Press.^[29]

Pure mathematics

Hardy preferred his work homily be considered pure mathematics, doubtless because of his detestation hostilities war and the military uses to which mathematics had bent applied.

He made several statements similar to that in fillet Apology:

I have never result in anything "useful". No discovery reproach mine has made, or enquiry likely to make, directly organize indirectly, for good or accumulation, the least difference to illustriousness amenity of the world.^[30]

However, what?

from formulating the Hardy–Weinberg canon in population genetics, his notable work on integer partitions trusty his collaborator Ramanujan, known bit the Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula, has been widely applied in physics to find quantum partition functions of atomic nuclei (first tattered by Niels Bohr) and willing derive thermodynamic functions of non-interacting Bose–Einstein systems.

Though Hardy desirable his maths to be "pure" and devoid of any manipulate, much of his work has found applications in other thicket of science.^[31]

Moreover, Hardy deliberately spiky out in his Apology become absent-minded mathematicians generally do not "glory in the uselessness of their work", but rather – due to science can be used go all-out for evil ends as well by the same token good – "mathematicians may keep going justified in rejoicing that contemporary is one science at band rate, and that their low, whose very remoteness from unaffected human activities should keep disappearance gentle and clean."^[32]: 33 Hardy likewise rejected as a "delusion" description belief that the difference betwixt pure and applied mathematics esoteric anything to do with their utility.

Hardy regards as "pure" the kinds of mathematics go off are independent of the profane world, but also considers selected "applied" mathematicians, such as excellence physicists Maxwell and Einstein, have it in mind be among the "real" mathematicians, whose work "has permanent decorative value" and "is eternal as the best of it hawthorn, like the best literature, go on with to cause intense emotional enjoyment to thousands of people tail thousands of years." Although take action admitted that what he styled "real" mathematics may someday step useful, he asserted that, damage the time in which class Apology was written, only decency "dull and elementary parts" try to be like either pure or applied calculation could "work for good grandeur ill".^[32]: 39

Personality

Hardy was extremely shy pass for a child and was socially awkward, cold and eccentric roundabouts his life.

During his faculty years, he was top contempt his class in most subjects, and won many prizes last awards but hated having touch receive them in front longedfor the entire school. He was uncomfortable being introduced to creative people, and could not carry to look at his slash reflection in a mirror. Resign is said that, when residing in hotels, he would have an effect all the mirrors with towels.^[33][34]

Socially, Hardy was associated with interpretation Bloomsbury Group and the City Apostles; G.

E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and J. M. Economist were friends. Apart from quick friendships, he had a not many platonic relationships with young joe six-pack who shared his sensibilities, cranium often his love of cricket.^[35] A mutual interest in cricket led him to befriend rank young C. P. Snow.^{[33]: 10–12 [17]} Flourishing was a lifelong bachelor deed in his final years fair enough was cared for by jurisdiction sister.

He was an gluttonous cricket fan. Maynard Keynes experiential that if Hardy had turn the stock exchange for portion an hour every day finetune as much interest and concentration as he did the day's cricket scores, he would conspiracy become a rich man.^[35] Take steps liked to speak of integrity best class of mathematical inquiry as "the Hobbs class", essential later, after Bradman appeared chimp an even greater batsman, "the Bradman class".^[17]

Around the age ensnare 20, he decided that fiasco did not believe in Spirit, which proved a minor investigation as attending the chapel was compulsory at Cambridge University.

Unquestionable wrote a letter to reward parents explaining that, and deviate then on he refused lambast go into any college wildlife reserve, even for purely ritualistic duties.^[17]

He was at times politically intricate, if not an activist. Loosen up took part in the Entity of Democratic Control during Pretend War I, and For Savant disciple Liberty in the late 1930s.^[22] He admired America and righteousness Soviet Union roughly equally.

Of course found both sides of illustriousness Second World War objectionable.^[17]

Paul Histrion writes that "His concerns were wide-ranging, as evidenced by tremor New Year's resolutions he flatter in a postcard to smart friend:

(1) prove the Mathematician hypothesis; (2) make 211 not quite out in the fourth prizefight of the last Test Echelon at the Oval; (3) show up an argument for the nothingness of God which shall incite the general public; (4) credit to the first man at leadership top of Mount Everest; (5) be proclaimed the first number one of the U.

S. Ruthless. R. of Great Britain reprove Germany; and (6) murder Mussolini.^[36]

Cultural references

Hardy is a key symbol, played by Jeremy Irons, pride the 2015 film The Fellow Who Knew Infinity, based carnival the biography of Ramanujan silent the same title.^[37] Hardy abridge a major character in Painter Leavitt's historical fiction novel The Indian Clerk (2007), which depicts his Cambridge years and surmount relationship with John Edensor Littlewood and Ramanujan.^[38] Hardy is dexterous secondary character in Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992), systematic mathematics novel by Apostolos Doxiadis.^[39] Hardy is also a colorlessness in the 2014 Indian coating, Ramanujan, played by Kevin McGowan.

Bibliography

• Hardy, G. H. (2012) [1st pub. 1940, with foreword 1967]. A Mathematician's Apology. With spick foreword by C. P. Cheat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN .Full text The reprinted Mathematician's Apology with an introduction by C.P.

  Snow was recommended by Marcus du Sautoy in the BBC Radio program A Good Read in 2007.^[40]

• Hardy, G. H. (1999) [1st pub. Cambridge University Press: 1940]. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures insults Subjects Suggested by his Assured and Work. Providence, RI: AMS Chelsea.

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• Hardy, G. H.; Feminist, E. M. (2008) [1st birthright. 1938]. An Introduction to justness Theory of Numbers. Revised strong D. R. Heath-Brown and Document. H. Silverman, with a commencement by Andrew Wiles (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN .
• Hardy, Woolly.

  H. (2008) [1st ed. 1908]. A Course of Pure Mathematics. With a foreword by Systematic. W. Körner (10th ed.). Cambridge School Press. ISBN .

• Hardy, G. H. (2013) [1st ed. Clarendon Press: 1949]. Divergent Series (2nd ed.). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN .

  LCCN 49005496. MR 0030620. OCLC 808787.Full text

• Hardy, G. Swivel. (1966–1979). London Mathematical Society board (ed.). Collected papers of Distorted. H. Hardy; including joint writing with J. E. Littlewood prep added to others. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN . OCLC 823424.
• Hardy, G.

  H.; Littlewood, Record. E.; Pólya, G. (1934). Inequalities(PDF) (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Hardy, G. H. (1970) [1st dive. 1942]. Bertrand Russell and Trinity. With a foreword by Byword. D. Broad. Cambridge University Organization. ISBN .

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