## G. H. Hardy and probability???(English)Zbl 1029.01016

The British mathematician Godefrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) is well known by his work in analytic number theory. His Collected Papers in 7 vols. (1966-1979) contain 350 papers to pure mathematics. Despite his antipathy to probability he contributed deeply to this topic in 3 directions: 1) Together with R. Ramanujan (1920) he contributed to probabilistic number theory, 2) His work on Tauberian theorems and divergent series has probabilistic proofs and interpretations, 3) Hardy spaces $$H^p$$ are a central ingredient in stochastic calculus.
The author, who was a Hardy fellow confesses: “I do not think that I would have been able to convince Hardy to learn any probability. Rather he has convinced me to learn more of his kind of mathematics.” 90 references.
Reviewer: H.Grimm (Jena)

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 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 60-03 History of probability theory 11K65 Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory 40E05 Tauberian theorems 11-03 History of number theory
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