The G. H. Hardy Reader (Hardcover)

Part I. Biography: 1. Hardy's life; 2. The letter from Ramanujan to Hardy, 16 January 1913; 3. A letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 2 February 1913; 4. The Indian mathematician Ramanujan; 5. Epilogue from the man who knew infinity; 6. Posters of 'Hardy's years at Oxford'; 7. A glimpse of J. E. Littlewood; 8. A letter from Freeman Dyson to C. P. Snow, 22 May 1967, and two letters from Hardy to Dyson; 9. Miss Gertrude Hardy; Part II. Writings by and about G. H. Hardy: 10. Hardy on writing books; 11. Selections from Hardy's writings; 12. Selections from what others have said about Hardy; Part III. Mathematics: 13. An introduction to the theory of numbers; 14. Prime numbers; 15. The theory of numbers; 16. The Riemann zeta-function and lattice point problems; 17. Four Hardy gems; 18. What is geometry?; 19. The case against the mathematical tripos; 20. The mathematician on cricket; 21. Cricket for the rest of us; 22. A mathematical theorem about golf; 23. Mathematics in war-time; 24. Mathematics; 25. Asymptotic formulæ in combinatory analysis (excerpts) with S. Ramanujan; 26. A new solution of Waring's problem (excerpts), with J. E. Littlewood; 27. Some notes on certain theorems in higher trigonometry; 28. The Integral _∞0sin xx dx and further remarks on the integral _∞0sin xx dx; Part IV. Tributes: 29. Dr. Glaisher and the 'messenger of mathematics'; 30. David Hilbert; 31. Edmund Landau (with H. Heilbronn); 32. Gosta Mittag-Leffler; Part V. Book Reviews: 33. Osgood's calculus and Johnson's calculus; 34. Hadamard: the psychology of invention in the mathematical field; 35. Hulburt: differential and integral calculus; 36. Bocher: an introduction to the study of integral equations.