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A Mathematician's Apology
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1940
- Pages
- Pages 90
It is a melancholy experience, the book begins, for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. Hardy was past sixty, certain the theorems had stopped coming, and what he wrote in their place is the most beautiful defence of useless thought in English.
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics.
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