Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-2-2022
Abstract
Imagine responding to G.H. Hardy’s well-known 1940 A Mathematician’s Apology wherein he claimed that (i) “Engineering is not a useful study for ordinary men.” (ii.) “There is the real mathematics of the real mathematicians, and there is what I call the trivial mathematics— which includes its practical application, the bridges and steam-engines and dynamos.” (iii.) “Most people can do nothing at all well.” (iv.) “Exposition . . . is work for second-rate minds.” This meditation consists of various open-ended rebuttal thoughts to these claims—which may prompt further ACMS discussion.
Recommended Citation
Simoson, Andrew, "A Homily on Hardy's Apology" (2022). ACMS Conference Proceedings 2022. 18.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/acms-2022/18