Record

Authorised form of nameHardy; Godfrey Harold (1877 - 1947)
Dates1877 - 1947
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCranleigh, Surrey, England
Date of birth07 February 1877
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death01/12/1947
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Winchester College; MA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1910
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1920; Sylvester Medal 1940; Copley Medal 1947
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 447-461, plate, by E C Titchmarsh
References:
S. Chandrasekhar, 'On Ramanujan's Bust' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 153-157
Brebis Bleaney, 'The Physical Sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and Earlier' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 247-261
D A B Young, 'Ramanujan's Illness' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 107-119
I J Zucker, 'India's Mathematical Prodigy', review of Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity. A Life of the Genius Ramanujan in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 325-326
Dame Mary Cartwright, 'Note on A G Cock's Paper "Chauvinism in Science": The International Research Council, 1919-1926' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 125-128
A G Cock, 'Chauvinism and Internationalism in Science: The International Research Council, 1919-1926' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 249-288
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/76328275
CodeNA7978
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1910/08Hardy, Godfrey Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/67/412Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS16 December 1924
NLB/46/409Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Fellow of the Royal Society27 July 1912
NLB/47/262Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to G [Godfrey] H [Harold] Hardy FRS4 January 1913
NLB/48/378Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Fellow of the Royal Society24 June 1913
NLB/63/21Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS15 June 1922
NLB/51/89Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS8 December 1914
NLB/51/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS12 December 1914
NLB/51/161Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Godfrey Harold Hardy, FRS22 December 1914
NLB/51/321Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Godfrey Harold Hardy, FRS12 February 1915
RR/24/99Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the Cesàro convergence of restricted Fourier series' by William Henry Young[March 1917]
RR/24/100Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the mode of approach to zero of the coefficients of a Fourier series' by William Henry Young[March 1917]
NLB/59/781Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS; New College, Oxford11 November 1920
RR/29/79Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'A mathematical theory of evolution, based on the conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis' by George Udny YuleDecember 1923
NLB/58/455Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS7 May 1920
NLB/58/523Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS[17 May 1920]
NLB/59/7Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy Esquire, FRS; New College, Oxford9 July 1920
NLB/58/800Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS21 June 1920
NLB/55/340Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Geofrey Harold] Hardy Esq., FRS04 March 1918
NLB/63/758Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS, New College, Oxford11 December 1922
RR/40/18Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The arithmetically reduced indefinite quadratic form in n-variables' by Louis Joel MordellJanuary 1931
NLB/59/779Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS10 November 1920
RR/39/100Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'Kronecker's fundamental limit formula in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions, and similar theorems' by Louis Joel Mordell[June 1929]
NLB/65/25Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS14 July 1923
NLB/57/521Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to GH Hardy [Godfrey Harold] Esq. FRS24 November 1919
NLB/61/30Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS29 April 1921
NLB/60/492Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS15 February 1921
NLB/61/436Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS8 July 1921
NLB/60/782Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS5 April 1921
NLB/57/674Copy letter from TE James, Clerk of the Royal Society; to GH [Godfrey Harold] Hardy Esq, FRS10 January 1920
NLB/61/257Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS8 June 1921
RR/24/91Referee's report by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich and Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of integral-equations' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker28 February 1918
NLB/61/565Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Geoffrey Harold] Hardy, FRS2 August 1921
NLB/62/319Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS23 January 1922
NLB/61/626Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS23 September 1921
NLB/61/825Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS1 November 1921
NLB/61/841Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS3 November 1921
NLB/62/415Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS10 February 1922
NLB/67/57Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS11 October 1924
NLB/55/521Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Esq., FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge14 May 1918
NLB/62/816Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS12 May 1922
NLB/62/647Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS31 March 1922
RR/65/68Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On sums of positive integral kth powers' by Harold DavenportJanuary 1939
NLB/62/837Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Geoffrey Harold] Hardy, FRS18 May 1922
NLB/65/549Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS17 November 1923
NLB/63/712Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS04 December 1922
RR/20/164Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On trigonometrical series whose cesàro partial summations oscillate finitely' by W H YoungJune 1913
NLB/63/511Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS01 November 1922
RR/68/478Memoranda, on a paper 'Theorems concerning functions subharmonic in a strip' by Godfrey Harold Hardy and Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski4 October 1944
NLB/63/870Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS12 January 1923
NLB/64/605Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professsor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS10 May 1923
NLB/63/478Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS26 October 1922
NLB/65/627Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS30 November 1923
NLB/66/599Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman3 June 1924
NLB/65/303Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS9 October 1923
NLB/66/56Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS14 February 1924
NLB/65/515Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS13 November 1923
NLB/65/754Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS18 December 1923
NLB/66/99Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS22 February 1924
NLB/66/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy22 February 1924
NLB/65/420Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Arthur Smith] Woodward, FRS; also sent to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy; [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq.; [Joseph] Barcroft Esq; Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman; Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson; [William] Bateson, Esq.; Professor [John Bretland] Farmer; Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins30 October 1923
NLB/66/763Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS4 July 1924
NLB/66/492Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS19 May 1924
NLB/68/452Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS, Honourable Secretary of the London Mathematical Society; New College, Oxford13 July 1925
NLB/67/42Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS8 October 1924
NLB/71/403Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS3 May 1928
NLB/69/649Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS9 July 1926
NLB/71/281Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS14 March 1928
NLB/71/467Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS2 June 1928
NLB/72/491Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS13 November 1929
NLB/71/587Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the President, Organization Committee of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Bologna [Italy]13 July 1928
NLB/72/668Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS21 February 1930
NLB/72/946Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS17 July 1930
NLB/68/162Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS21 May 1925
RR/22/135Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'Note on the existence of converging sequences in certain oscillating successions of functions' by William Henry YoungNovember 1915
RR/19/149Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the multiplication of successions of Fourier constants' by William Henry Young[July 1912]
RR/24/97Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the series of Legendre' by William Henry Young[November 1917]
RR/19/150Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the new theory of integration' by William Henry Young[January 1913]
NLB/65/231Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson, Esq., FRS; also sent to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, Dr [Arthur] Smith Woodward, Dr [Frank Watson] Dyson, [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq., [Joseph] Barcroft Esq.24 September 1923
NLB/65/722Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1923
NLB/72/869Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C. F. Hodgson Esq.; Newton Street, Kingsway, W.C.1.10 June 1930
IM/001942Hardy, Godfrey Haroldnd
RR/29/33Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the thirteen semi-regular solids of Archimedes, and on their development by the transformation of certain plane configurations' by D'arcy Wentworth ThompsonOctober 1924
RR/68/151Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy19 August 1941
NLB/69/386Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS25 March 1926
NLB/70/877Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy FRS; Professor [Archibald Vivian] Hill; Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer; Dr [] Pickard; Sir [] Edgeworth David; Professor [Robert Howson] Forsyth; Professor [Horace] Lamb; Sir James Walker27 October 1927
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/39/54Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The polytopes with regular-prismatic vertex figures' by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter[February 1930]
RR/68/152Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy[August 1941]
RR/68/256Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy9 September 1942
RR/26/43Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'A simple extension of Fourier's integral theorem and some physical applications, in particular to the theory of quanta' by Ralph Howard Fowler12 June 1921
RR/26/91Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The summation of series' by Hector Munro Macdonald1 November 1921
RR/26/97Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The design of repeating patterns' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and W P D MacMahon[January 1922]
RR/57/27Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The zeros of the Riemann Zeta-Function' by Edward Charles Titchmarsh[May 1935]
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