What is G.H. Hardy?
{{Infobox Scientist |name = G.H. Hardy |image = Ghhardy@72.jpg |image_size = 230px |caption = G.H. Hardy |birth_date = {{birth date|1877|02|07|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Cranleigh]], [[Surrey]], England |death_date = {{death date and age|1947|12|01|1877|02|07|df=y}} |death_place = Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, [[England]] |residence = |citizenship = [[United Kingdom|British]] |nationality = British |field = |work_institutions = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Geff Harold Hardy''' [[Royal Society|FRS]] (7 February 1877 Cranleigh, [[Surrey]] – 1 December 1947 [[Cambridge]], [[Cambridgeshire]])<ref>GRO Register of Births: MAR 1877 2a 147 HAMBLEDON - Godfrey Harold Hardy</ref><ref>GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1947 4a 204 CAMBRIDGE - Godfrey H. Hardy, aged 70</ref> was a famous [[England|English]] [[mathematics|mathematician]]. He investigated number theory and [[mathematical analysis]]. Hardy's classic text ''A course of pure mathematics'' was first published in 1908 and has been in print ever since. He wrote ''[[A Mathematician's Apology]]'' in 1940.<ref>G.H. Hardy, ''A Mathematician's Apology'', Cambridge University Press (1940). 153 pages. {{ISBN|0-521-42706-1}}.</ref> In 1908, unable to explain how a [[allele|dominant]] [[gene]] would not become ubiquitous in a population, [[Reginald Punnett]] introduced his problem to Hardy, with whom he played [[cricket]]. Hardy went on to formulate what became known as the [[Hardy–Weinberg law]].<ref>{{cite journal |pmid=17779291 |year=1908 |author=Hardy G.H. |title=Mendelian proportions in a mixed population |volume=28 |issue=706 |pages=49–50 |issn=0036-8075 |doi=10.1126/science.28.706.49 |journal=Science.|bibcode=1908Sci....28...49H }}</r