A Mathematician’s Apology

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The life of a mathematician ◮ In the end, Hardy believes that mathematics must be defended on aesthetic grounds. As for his own life: Dan Sloughter (Furman University) A Mathematician’s Apology November 28, 2006 13 / 13
The life of a mathematician ◮ In the end, Hardy believes that mathematics must be defended on aesthetic grounds. As for his own life: The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them. (page 2038) Dan Sloughter (Furman University) A Mathematician’s Apology November 28, 2006 13 / 13
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