Hardy G.H. A Mathematician’s Apology

Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 153 p. — ISBN 1-107-60463-X, 978-1-107-60463-6.A Mathematician's Apology is the famous essay by British mathematician G.H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal content, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician. Indeed, this book is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman.
«It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings; there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.»Файл: отскан. стр. (b/w 600 dpi) + ClearScan от Adobe Acrobat + закладки