Mathematician:Godfrey Harold Hardy

Mathematician
English mathematician noted for his work in number theory and analysis.

Also famous for his discovery and mentorship of.

Non-mathematicians remember him mainly for his book A Mathematician's Apology.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: February 7, 1877, Cranleigh, Surrey, England
 * Died: December 1, 1947, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Critical Line Theorem
 * Hardy Notation
 * Hardy Space
 * Pisot-Vijayaraghavan Number (named for and )
 * Hardy's Inequality
 * Hardy's Theorem
 * Hardy-Littlewood Tauberian Theorem (with )
 * First Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture (with )
 * Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture (with )


 * Hardy-Littlewood Circle Method (with )
 * Hardy-Ramanujan Number (with )

Publications

 * 1908:
 * 1915: The general theory of Dirichlet's series (with )
 * 1916: The Integration of Functions of a Single Variable




 * 1927: (as editor, with  and )


 * 1934: Inequalities (with and )
 * 1938: (with )
 * 1940:
 * 1940:
 * 1949: Divergent Series
 * 1966: Collected papers of G.H. Hardy (including joint papers with and others)

Notable Quotes

 * A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
 * -- Quoted in the Preface to