Apology of Mathematics

People and animals, plants, buildings, works of art can be beautiful - but can mathematics be beautiful?
Godfri Hardy, who called his profession “pure mathematics”, left the world a wonderful and still popular with enthusiastic precision sciences people around the world work “Apology Mathematics”, dedicated to the peculiar “philosophy of mathematics” - pure science, brilliant game of reason, free flight of intellectual imagination, which the author compared with the inspiration of the poet, artist or chess player.
The main object of his admiration, his muse , the theory of numbers becomes - “Mathematics for Mathematics”, the scientific analogue has long been “pure art” beloved by the British. Mathematics, devoid of applied “triviality” and “ugliness” and the beautiful, among other things, also because it is not able to harm humanity