Hardy, Godfrey

J. Kepler. The Six-Cornered Snowflake, translated by C. Hardie. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1966. Originally published as Sen de Nive Sexangida. Frankfurt am Main Godfrey, Tampach, 1611). 

Beauty is the first test... Godfrey Harold Hardy [ 1 ]... 

Dik T. Winter from Amsterdam is an expert on a somewhat related class of numbers that are the sums of powers of their digits. In other words, these -digit numbers are equal to the sum of the nth powers of their digits. For example, 153 = P -I- 5 -i- 3. Variously called narcissistic numbers, numbers in love with themselves, Armstrong numbers, or perfect digital variants, these kinds of numbers have fascinated number theorists for decades. The English mathematician Godfrey Hardy (1877-1947) noted that, There are just four numbers, after unity, which are the sums of the... 

Each digit is raised to the 39th power.) Can you beat this world record What would Godfrey Hardy have thought of this multidigit monstrosity ... 

Titchmarsh, E. C. (1949) Godfrey Harold Hardy. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 6, 447. 

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