Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore: Interface Problems and Methods in Biological and Physical Flows (Hardcover)

from Archiver

Two Books In One! This is a delightful read. The foreword by C.P. Snow takes up approximately one-third of the book, and is effectively a short biography of Hardy. It follows his life from late Victorian public school, to Trinity at Cambridge, then to New College Oxford, and then back to Cambridg...

from jmattas

A good "justification" of pure mathematics. Practicing mathematics satisfies an intellectual curiosity, it can be seen as making observations of a "mathematical reality", and mathematical theorems are "eternal". I agree with Hardy that pure math is like creative art with its aesthetics and so on,...

from jmattas

A good "justification" of pure mathematics. Practicing mathematics satisfies an intellectual curiosity, it can be seen as making observations of a "mathematical reality", and mathematical theorems are "eternal". I agree with Hardy that pure math is like creative art with its aesthetics and so on,...

from knecht

Hardy's own story is required reading for anyone seriously undertaking a life in hard creative fields: maths, science or arts. It is a cautionary tale against overt competitiveness, as he is a shining example of a person so insecure that his entire life is devoted to proving he is better than oth...

from Jeannine504

Why is the mathematician apologizing? Because although he became an Oxford don and left something permanent in the field of pure mathematics, he did nothing to improve the life of others. It was a selfish life because he loved the creative process and was fortunate enough that it brought him the ...