• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    On the other hand, Hardy denigrates much of the applied mathematics as either being “trivial”, “ugly”, or “dull”, and contrasts it with “real mathematics”, which is how he ranks the higher, pure mathematics.

    This part really resonates with my memory of the bio on the book. Thanks for the research!