A short book that contains a long foreword about the life of G H Hardy the English mathematician and his essay written in 1940 discussing what mathematics is about and asking the question what purpose does it serve.
The foreword was particulary interesting for me, as well as discussing his life and decline it also discusses his collabration with other mathematicians. One such collabration was the discovery of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan a self taught genius number theorist. I had heard about this man in a documentary but it was interesting to recognise him described in more detail.
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