English Mathematician G. H. Hardy
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G.H Hardy (Godfrey Harold Hardy) was an English Mathematician. He was born on 7 February 1877. He has done considerable research on mathematical analysis and number theory. He became famous because of his mathematical essay ” A Mathematician’s Apology. “
He worked with Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is considered one of the greatest Indian Mathematician
G.H Hardy’s life history from his birth to death.
- He was born in Surrey, England, on 7 February 1877.
- He has done his schooling at one of the local schools in Cranleigh, England.
- He joined the college of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1896.
- He joined an elite, intellectual secret society called the Cambridge Apostles, in 1898.
- He passed part II of the Tripos In 1900.
- He was chosen for a Prize Fellowship at Trinity College in 1903.
- He earned his M.A. in 1903.
- He has done his highest academic degree at English universities
- He joined as a professor of mathematics at Trinity College in 1906.
- To take the Savilian Chair of Geometry, he left Cambridge in 1919
- He spent the academic life at Princeton in an educational exchange (1928–1929 )
- He left Oxford and returned to Cambridge in 1931.
- He was manging Abingdon School from 1922–1935.
- He died on 1 December 1947
G.H. Hardy Books
G.H Hardy has written more than 15 books based on Mathematics. Below you can find the list of books.
- A Mathematician’s Apology
- An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
- Inequalities G. H. Hardy
- A Course of Pure Mathematics
- Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work.
- Orders of Infinity: The ‘infinitärcalcül’ of Paul Du Bois-Reymond
- Divergent Series
- The general theory of Dirichlet’s series
- The integration of functions of a single variable
- Some Famous Problems of the Theory of Numbers and in Particular Waring’s Problem; An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford
- A Course of Pure Mathematics: Introductory Mathematical Analysis for People Studying Calculus
- Bertrand Russell and Trinity
- The Book of the Fly: A Nature Study of the House-fly and Its Kin, the Fly Plague and a Cure
- The Church-Wardens Accounts of the Parish of St. Marys, Reading, Berks
- A Mathematician’s Apology South Asian Edition
- Collected Papers of G.H. Hardy: Including Joint Papers with J.E. Littlewood and Others read more