ABSTRACT
Professor G. H. Hardy was a very pure mathematician. Much of his work was on the theory of numbers. For example he and his colleagues tackled the problem of the number of partitions of a given number. He finally arrived at the formula, which is fairly complicated. He would admit that various mathematicians had been in the first class. To take one single example, there is a function called Riemann's Zeta function, which was devised, and its properties investigated, to find an expression for the number of prime numbers less than a given number. Even cricket has its social functions. For example in spite of the strong resentment aroused by Larwood's bowling, it has certainly cemented friendship between Britain and Australia: and the prowess of Indian and West Indian cricketers has made some Englishmen who would not otherwise have done so respect members of darker coloured races.
