Instruments of a Delicate Character

The Annotated Lecture from 1912

E. W. Hobson

Response Essay by J. Brian Pitts
Edited by Tristan Abbey

Description

PRAISE FOR E . W. HOBSON
Recipient of the Royal Medal and the De Morgan Medal

“A singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young.
—G. H. Hardy, author of A Mathematician’s Apology

This is a simple booklet. It contains a newly annotated version of E.W. Hobson’s lecture, “Mathematics, from the points of view of the Mathematician and of the Physicist,” delivered to University College London in 1912, and features a brand-new response essay by J. Brian Pitts, physicist-philosopher at Cambridge University.