Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by G. H. Hardy (English Mathematician)

G. H. Hardy (1877–1947,) fully Godfrey Harold Hardy, was a leading English pure mathematician whose work was mainly in analysis and number theory. In biology, he is known for the Hardy-Weinberg principle, a fundamental principle of population genetics.

Born in Cranleigh, Surrey, Hardy was educated at Cambridge and became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1900. In 1920, he became Savilian Professor at Oxford but returned to Cambridge as Sadleirian Professor (1931–42.)

An internationally important figure in mathematical analysis, Hardy was chiefly responsible for introducing English mathematicians to the significant advances in function theory that had been made abroad. In much of his work in analytic number theory, the Riemann zeta-function, Fourier series, and divergent series, Hardy collaborated with mathematician John Littlewood.

Hardy brought the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan to Cambridge and introduced his work to the mathematical world. With Ramanujan, Hardy found a precise theorem for the partition function, which represents numerous ways for a number to be written as a sum of smaller numbers.

Hardy’s mathematical philosophy was described for the layman in his book A Mathematician’s Apology (1940.) He claimed that one of the attractions of pure mathematics was its lack of practical use. Hardy did not disguise his distaste for applied mathematics. In his single endeavor in applied mathematics, he developed (concurrently with, but independent of, German obstetrician-gynecologist William Weinberg) the Hardy-Weinberg law, fundamental to population genetics.

More: Wikipedia READ: Works by G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Topics: Being True to Yourself, Intelligence

Wondering Whom to Read Next?

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *