G. H. Hardy

Godfrey Harold Hardy was born in 1877 in Cranleigh, Surrey, where his father taught at a school. He showed a gift for numbers very young and won scholarships to Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow and spent most of his career, apart from about eleven years as a professor at Oxford. With his longtime collaborator John Edensor Littlewood he wrote many important papers on mathematical analysis and number theory, including the distribution of prime numbers. In 1913 he received a letter from Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught clerk in Madras, India, containing remarkable formulas; Hardy brought him to Cambridge in 1914, and their partnership became one of the most celebrated in mathematics. Hardy also gave his name to the Hardy–Weinberg principle in population genetics. He loved cricket and disliked any practical use of mathematics in war. His essay A Mathematician's Apology (1940) describes the beauty of pure mathematics and what it is like to be a creative mathematician. He died in Cambridge in 1947.

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