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Forgive the naïve question, but what is Hardy's lament?
by two_handfuls 3y ago
Forgive the naïve question, but what is Hardy's lament?
- ducttapecrown 3y agoHardy's lament is a short popular essay about how the famous professional mathematician Hardy experiences math as art with the curiosity of a child, and yet the average school math education evokes a prison of rote exercise. It was written in 1940 and I think at some point he says something about number theory being pure math with no applications. Ironically I'm submitting this comment over https so he was wrong about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology