An eccentric leading mathematician, confined for life within the surroundings of Cambridge, feels the need to "apologize." A physicist, a friend of the former, tries to illuminate the peculiar personality of the "apologizer."

Without a trace of modesty - in 1940, towards the end of his career - Professor G.H. Hardy passionately but not fanatically defends mathematical creation. A book - often eccentric in its views, sometimes melancholic and at times acerbic - that initiates both the initiated and the uninitiated, friends and non-friends of science, into the strange world of pure mathematics and the values and perceptions of an era that seems to be fading away.

The Greek translation is accompanied by extensive commentary that introduces the Greek reader to the lifestyle and habits of the social and scientific milieu of England during the interwar period.