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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
CSAC 112.3.86/G.112
Title
Hardy, G.H.
Date
1944, May-December and undated
Description

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.

Held by
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
Language
English
Administrative / biographical background

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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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of HAROLD DAVENPORT FRS; (1907 - 1969)

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Within the sub-fonds: CSAC 112.3.86/G.1 - G.373

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Hardy, G.H.