a queen hurtling towards inevitable self-destruction
Featuring a portrait of the author on the front cover with his signature printed below in gold foil
is no Twilight—but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation
ISBN13: 9780307120267 ISBN10: 0307120260 Material Type: hardcover
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A Mathematician's Apology (Canto) Tao Te Ching (Books) a queen hurtling towards inevitableG. 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 as his mathematical powers were declining, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first