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The G.H. Hardy reader /
"This book is a feast of G.H. Hardy's writing. There are selections of his mathematical papers, his book reviews, his tributes to departed colleagues. Some articles are serious, and others display his wry sense of humor. To these are added recollections by those who knew Hardy, along with...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Biography. Hardy's life ; The letter from Ramanujan to Hardy, 16 January 1913 ; A letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 2 February 1913 ; The Indian mathematician Ramanujan ; "Epilogue" from The man who knew infinity by Robert Kanigel ; Posters of "Hardy's years at Oxford" by R.J. Wilson ; A glimpse of J.E. Littlewood ; A letter from Freeman Dyson to C.P. Snow, 22 May 1967, and two letters from Hardy to Dyson ; Miss Gertrude Hardy
- Writings by and about G.H. Hardy. Hardy on writing books ; Selections from Hardy's writings ; Selections from what others have said about Hardy
- Mathematics. An introduction to the theory of numbers ; Prime numbers ; The theory of numbers ; The Riemann zeta-function and lattice point problems by E.C. Titchmarsh ; Four Hardy gems (A function ; An integral ; An inequality ; An application) ; What is geometry? ; The case against the mathematical tripos ; The mathematician on cricket by C.P. Snow ; Cricket for the rest of us by John Stillwell ; A mathematical theorem about golf ; Mathematics in war-time ; Mathematics ; Asymptotic formulæ in combinatory analysis (excerpts) with S. Ramanujan ; A new solution of Waring's problem (excerpts) with J.E. Littlewood ; Some notes on certain theorems in higher trigonometry ; The integral and further remarks on the integral
- Tributes. Dr. Glaisher and the "messenger of mathematics" ; David Hilbert ; Edmund Landau (with H. Heilbronn) ; Gösta Mittag-Leffler
- Book Reviews. Osgood's Calculus and Johnson's Calculus ; Hadamard : The psychology of invention in the mathematical field ; Hulburt : Differential and integral calculus ; Bôcher: An introduction to the study of integral equations ; Davison : Higher Algebra ; Zoretti : Leçons de mathématiques générales.