Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 1877-1947 (mathematician)
Dates
- Existence: 1877 - 1947
Biography
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) was educated at Cranleigh, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1900. He became Cayley lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge in 1914, and Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, 1920. From 1931 to 1932 he was Sadleirian professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge. Hardy produced much of his work in collaboration with other mathematicians, notably J.E. Littlewood. His works include A course of pure mathematics (1908), An introduction to the theory of numbers (1938, with E.M. Wright), and Divergent series (1949). He also contributed to the field of genetics by a developing a law that described how the proportions of dominant and recessive genetic traits would be propagated in a large population.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood: Papers on Waring's problem, 1919-1921 (Circa)
Drafts for publication, written in the hand of G.H. Hardy, 104 folios: 1. A new solution of Waring's Problem. 2. Some problems of 'Partitio Numerorum': I. 3. Some problems of 'Partitio Numerorum': II.
G.H. Hardy and S. Ramanujan: 'Asymptotic Formulae in Combinatory Analysis', 1916 (Circa)
A draft for publication, written in the hand of G.H. Hardy, 108 folios.