Like Descartes and Pascal, Hans Hahn (1879-1934) was both an eminent mathematician and a highly influential philosopher. He founded the Vienna Circle and was the teacher of both Kurt Gödel and Karl Popper.
His seminal contributions to functional analysis and general topology had a huge impact on the development of modern analysis. Hahn's passionate interest in the foundations of mathematics, vividly described in Sir Karl Popper's foreword (which became his last essay), had a decisive influence upon Gödel. Like Freud, Musil and Schönberg, Hahn became a pivotal figure in the feverish intellectual climate of Vienna between the two wars.| ISBN: | 9783709173565 |
| Publication date: | 13th October 2012 |
| Author: | Hans Hahn |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Vienna |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 546 pages |
| Genres: |
Functional analysis and transforms Philosophy Topology Combinatorics and graph theory |