Mathematician's Apology

G. H. Hardy was one of this century''s finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a ''real mathematician … the purest of the pure''. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, ''unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything''. This ''apology'', written in 1940, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; ...