From 1906 onward he held the position of a lecturer where teaching six hours per week left him time for research. In 1903 he earned his M.A., which was the highest academic degree at English universities at that time. In 1900 he passed part II of the tripos and was awarded a fellowship at Cambridge. Years later, he sought to abolish the Tripos system, as he felt that it was becoming more an end in itself than a means to an end.Īs the most important influence Hardy cites the self-study of Cours d’analyse de l’École Polytechnique by the French mathematician Camille Jordan, through which he became acquainted with the more precise mathematics tradition in continental Europe. After only two years of preparation, Hardy was fourth in the Mathematics Tripos examination, a result which continued to annoy him for, despite feeling that the system was very silly, he still felt that he should have come out on top. In 1896 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. After schooling at Cranleigh, Hardy was awarded a scholarship to Winchester College for his mathematical work. When just two years old, he wrote numbers up to millions, and when taken to church he amused himself by factorising the numbers of the hymns. Hardy’s own natural affinity for mathematics was perceptible already at an early age. Both parents were mathematically inclined, but, coming from poor families, had not been able to have a university education. Godfrey Harold Hardy was born on 7 February 1877, in Cranleigh, Surrey, England, the son of Isaac Hardy, a bursar and an art master at Cranleigh school, and his mother Sophia, who had been a senior mistress at Lincoln Training College for teachers. “A mathematician … has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.” Hardy is known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis, but also for his 1940 essay on the aesthetics of mathematics, A Mathematician’s Apology, and for mentoring the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. On December 1, 1947, English mathematician G.
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