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 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