Italy, the bel paese (beautiful country), is one of Europe's great seducers. Blessed with an unparalleled cultural heritage, food that's imitated the world over and a landscape that combines Alpine peaks, stunning coastlines and remote wildernesses, it's been beguiling travellers for centuries. And [...]
G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ...the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1[...]