【不等式（领域奠基作）】G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, G. Pólya - Inequalities-Cambridge University Press 1934.pdfVIP

INEQUALITIES By G. H. HARDY J. E. LITTLEWOOD G. POLYA CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1934 INEQ{JALITIES LONDON Cambridge University Press FETTER LANE NEW YORK· TORONTO BOMBA Y • OALOUTTA • MADRAS Macmillan TOKYO Maruzen Company Ltd A U rights reswueil PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN PREFACE This book was planned and begun in 1929. Our original inten- tion was that it should be one of the Cambridge Tract8, but it soon became plain that a tract would be much too short for our purpose. Our objects in writing the book are explained sufficiently in the introductory chapter, but we add a note here about history and bibliography. Historical and bibliographical questions are particularly troublesome in a subject like this, which has applica- tions in every part of mathematics but has never been developed systematically. It is often really difficult to trace the origin of a familiar inequality. It is quite likely to occur first as an auxiliary proposition, often without explicit statement, in a memoir on geometry or astronomy; it may have been rediscovered, many years later, by half a dozen different authors; and no accessible statement of it may be quite complete. We have almost always found, even with the most famous inequalities, that we have a little new to add. We have done our best to be accurate and have given all references we can, but we have never underta