G. H. Hardy

Cambridge analyst, Ramanujan's partner and champion, and the essayist of mathematics done for its own beauty.

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1877 – 1947

Core Principles & Analysis

• His Apology defends pure mathematics as the only kind worth a life's work.
• He introduced Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium into genetics in a 1908 letter.
• He ranked his collaborations with Ramanujan and Littlewood as his life's three great romances.