Subject: Re: [HM] Klein and Poincare
From: Bill Everdell (Everdell@aol.com)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 00:47:18 EDT
In a message dated 6/1/00 8:38:32 PM, Bernd.Buldt@uni-konstanz.de writes:
<<re cantor's appearance in mittag-leffler's "acta": W. Purkert/H.J.
Ilgauds in her biography "Georg Cantor, ..." (Basel 1987) state on p.
75 that among others also poincare participated in the translation of
cantor's essays for the acta. they don't give sources for this, but
i think one should find some evidence in the exchange of letters
between poincare and mittag-leffler (this was scheduled for
publication in 1999, but i havn't seen it yet>>
Poincare made a 27 page translation of Cantor's 41 page paper in Acta
Mathematica 2(1883).
"He found [Cantor's] papers much too philosophical at the time (as we know
from Hermite's correspondence with Mittag-Leffler, published by Dugac).
Poincare's French versions reorder the material and omit much of the
philosophical discussion, apparently with Cantor's agreement since the
translations were revised by him."
—Tom Archibald, historia-matematica, 13 Sep 1998
Bill Everdell, Brooklyn
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