a mathematician must

foremost be humble

so like heaven

& all sanctitty

NO JEWS

Hobson 1907

"I was led by the

"difficulties connected

"with fourier series

"through an attempt

"to understand the literature

study Cantor & Dedekind

1) theories of the real number

2) theories of sets of points

3) lastly the study of

the foundations of

"Integral Calculus

"this study of functions

"of a real variable

"formed a natural continuation