G. H. Hardy

About the author

Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877–1947) was an English mathematician whose achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis made him one of the leading figures in his field. His 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology remains a celebrated window into the mathematical mind, ranked by Graham Greene alongside the notebooks of Henry James. Hardy is equally remembered for recognising the untutored genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1914 — a collaboration he later called the most romantic incident of his life, and which he considered his greatest contribution to mathematics.

He also gave his name to the Hardy–Weinberg principle in population genetics.