Godfrey Harold Hardy, more popularly known as G. H. Hardy, was an English mathematician, famous for his contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. From the very beginning, he was an intellectual genius, but initially he felt no passion for mathematics. But while studying at Trinity College Cambridge, he was drawn to Continental mathematics and later contributed significantly to different realms of mathematics, especially analysis and number theory. He proudly called himself a pure mathematician and never disguised his distaste for applied mathematics. Himself a Fourth Wrangler, he tried to abolish the Tripos examinations while teaching at Cambridge because he believed it had become an end in itself. He was also a great collaborator and had authored or coauthored more than 300 papers and 11 books. Apart from that, he is also famed for discovering and nurturing Srinivasa Ramanujan, then an unknown and untrained mathematical genius from India.