Godfrey Harold Hardy

1877 - 1947

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Hardy's interests covered many topics of pure mathematics:- Diophantine analysis, summation of divergent series, Fourier series, the Riemann zeta function and the distribution of primes.
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List of References (20 books/articles)

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. Hardy's cricket teams, poets etc
  2. Hardy's reference for Pólya at ETH
  3. G H Hardy addresses the British Association in 1922
  4. G H Hardy: Integration of functions
  5. G H Hardy's schedule of lectures in the USA
  6. Hardy in the USA
  7. Hardy and Veblen on Erdos
  8. Three Sadleirian Professors
  9. Leonard Woolf on G H Hardy
  10. Hardy and Veblen on Max Newman
  11. Obituary: The Times
  12. Obituary: Royal Society of Edinburgh

Honours awarded to G H Hardy
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Fellow of the Royal Society1910
Savilian Geometry Professor1920
Royal Society Royal Medal1920
LMS President1926 - 1928
AMS Gibbs Lecturer1928
LMS De Morgan Medal1929
MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1932
Royal Society Sylvester Medal1940
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1946
Royal Society Copley Medal1947
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