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Hardy, G.H.
Catalogue reference: CSAC 112.3.86/G.112
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This record is a file about the Hardy, G.H. dating from 1944, May-December and undated.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CSAC 112.3.86/G.112
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Title (The name of the record)
- Hardy, G.H.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944, May-December and undated
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Description (What the record is about)
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Hardy's communications are letters and cards in his distinctive spiky handwriting, often with parentheses and balloons of afterthoughts, some in pencil and few dated other than by postmark.
Mainly on revisions of 'Hardy-Wright' but including a little general mathematical information.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Hardy, one of the most distinguished British mathematicians of his day, was Sadleirian Professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge 1931-42. Although this did not coincide with Davenport's undergraduate period, he and Hardy were colleagues at Trinity during the 1930s and they collaborated on a second edition of 'Hardy-Wright' (An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, by G.H. Hardy and E.M. Wright, 1938), see G.112, G.113; see G.351 for brief correspondence re 3rd edition.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b7d6864d-2510-4f6c-90da-8a8069bbdef1/
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