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Peter Wortsman) I will use for some other cross reference purposes in a later post. The collection of very short observations ‘Posthumous Papers of a Living Author’ (tr. Mike Mitchell), and his short stories published as ‘Unions’ and ‘Three Women’ (tr.

However, I am not going to investigate the references to mathematics in his unfinished novel, but will look at his first book ‘The Confusions of Young Törless’ (tr. It has already been mentioned that he was a mathematician, and noting more need be said of that for the moment in every profession followed not for money but for love there comes a moment when the advancing years seem to lead to a void. As readers of ‘The Man Without Qualities would know, the central character, Ulrich, is a mathematician Mathematics is a recurring theme in Robert Musil’s oeuvre, and as I have made my way through his catalogue, leading up to his unfinished “masterpiece” ‘The Man Without Qualities’, I have been intrigued by the frequent references to mathematics. ‘The Man Without Qualities ’ p 36 – Picador edition (tr. Most of us may not believe in the story of a Devil to whom one can sell one’s soul, but those who must know something about the soul (considering that as clergymen, historians, and artists they draw a good income from it) all testify that the soul has been destroyed by mathematics and that mathematics is the source of an evil intelligence that while making man the lord of the earth has also made him the slave of his machines.

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