Mathematicians Apology Essay

The author of “Mathematicians Apology” is Dr. Godfrey Harold, and it had published first time at 1940 in England. Prof. Harold is memoir of world renowned mathematicians, and this book was written while he was in failing health, and throughout this essay but there is no

Doubt at all about the feelings of men of science, and I share them fully. If then I find myself writing, not mathematics, but ‘about’ mathematics”, and I write about mathematics because, like any other mathematician who has passed sixty, I have no longer the freshness of mind, the energy, or the patience to carry on effectively with my proper job”. He discards the language he would use in his research/academic paper instead adopts a succinct and simple writing style aimed to

On chapter 3, Hardy discuss about career, he dedicated it as justification of existence and activities, he also status it can be separated two different parts, first. Weather the word which he does worth doing, second, why he does choose that careers. He could not sufficiently answer first part of questions, and he only focused on second part of questions. He proposed his theory as following: “if they are honest, will usually take one or other two forms; and the second form is a merely a humbler variation of the first, which is the only answer we need consider seriously”. Which means that most people choose career path because “It is the one and only things they can do at all well: He brought out some fields of career example such as lawyer, stockbroker, and professional cricketer. In my personal interpretation, these field of career is required some kind of talent and passions like lawyer, lawyer is required fluent tongue, proficient of debating and manipulate which is talent, and interested in legal subtleties and, passions of argument and debating, these kind of thins are almost always be dedicated by limitation of the natural abilities, but these techniques are not able to applied for poet, physicist and mathematician. He states, the field of career and professional ties in mathematicians are one of the most specialized talents and it is