Subject: [HM] Question from Richard (Dick) Askey
From: Tom Apostol (apostol@caltech.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 22:07:37 EST
Richard Askey sent me the following message:
Dear Tom,
I occasionally read the history list at the Math Forum but do not have
time to join it and get all of the interesting messages. However, I have
a question which I would like sent there, and thought you might forward it.
In a number of recent books and papers, G. H. Hardy is referred to as
Godfrey Harold Hardy, and occasionally as Godfrey Hardy. No one called him
Godfrey and only a few people called him Harold. What do professional
historians of mathematics think of using a name which was never used
by the person or his friends? The latest example I have seen of this
is in Hans Magnus Enzensberger's talk at the last ICM which has been
published in a joint German-English edition by A. K. Peters. He used
Godfrey Harold Hardy.
Dick Askey
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