Philosophy as an own answer to the general question world. Letters of Felix Hausdorff to Franz Meyer

DOI10.1007/S00048-007-0263-0MaRDI QIDQ2644686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Uwe Dathe

Publication date 3 September 2007

Published in NTM. Neue Serie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-007-0263-0

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorffphilosophy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

The author of the article acknowledges not having been able to trace specific biographical indications concerning Franz Meyer. In a letter written during February 1904, instead of providing Meyer with helpful recommendations, Hausdorff presented himself as a terrific counterexample. Hausdorff's pseudonym Paul Mongrés, a French name, can be translated in German by `mein Geschmack, meine Meinung, mein Wunsch und Willen', i.e., my personal taste. That choice may disclose, to a certain extent, Hausdorff's quite elementary motivations for his preference of particular philosophical fields of interest.

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