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