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A Mathematician's Apology
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A Mathematician's Apology

by G. H. Hardy

Paul Graham
Recommended by Paul Graham

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Philosophy.

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 mathe...

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Philosophy.

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Paul Graham

Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist

Rereading Hardy's _Mathematician's Apology_, slowly to make it last. Among the most inspiring books I know.

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