BRACERS Record Detail for 53163
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BR received Couturat's "souvenir" of Hanover. Why not publish "le tout du tout 'des mss. de Leibniz'", since there always seems to be something important remaining? He seeks permission to publish his original of Congress paper, which he is reading to the Aristotelian Society in January 1901. Success of Congress. BR is considering doing an article for Mind on Peano et al., like Couturat's article for Revue.
BR TO LOUIS COUTURAT, 18 SEPT. 1900
BRACERS 53163. ALS. La Chaux-de-Fonds Bib., Suisse. Russell–Couturat 1: #66
Edited by A.-F. Schmid
High Buildings,
Haslemere.a
le 18 septembre 1900
Cher Monsieur
J’ai bien reçu votre souvenir de Hanovre, et j’apprends avec plaisir que votre séjour a été profitable. Pourquoi ne publie-t-on pas le tout du tout des MSS. de Leibniz, puisqu’il paraît qu’il reste toujours quelque choseb d’important ?
J’ai promis de lire l’original anglais, du mémoire que j’ai lu au Congrès, à la « Aristotelian Society » au mois de janvier. On a l’habitude de publier les discours qui s’y lisent, mais je leur ai dit que je n’avait pas le droit de le publier. Savez-vous si on ferait aucune objection à la publication anglaise ? Ce n’est pas, du reste, une traduction littérale. J’aimerais le publier en Angleterre si j’ose le faire, mais je sais qu’il me faut la permission de l’éditeur des travaux du Congrès.
Le Congrès m’a paru un succès énorme. Pour ma part, j’ai beaucoup appris, et j’ai fait la connaissance de beaucoup de savants qui m’intéressent ; les communications me paraissaient en grande partie être d’une haute importance. Je vous félicite vivement, vous et vos amis de la Revue de Métaphysique, d’avoir organisé un Congrès tellement utile et tellement agréable.
Je me suis mis à étudier les œuvres de Peano et de ses disciples : je compte en faire un article pour Mind, semblable à celui que vous avez fait pour la Revue. J’admire beaucoup ce qu’a fait Peano pour l’Arithmétique, et Pieri pour la géométrie projective : le formulaire aussi me paraît une grande et belle entreprise, que j’aimerais voir perfectionnée.
Veuillez présenter mes respects à Madame Couturat, et lui dire que nous comptons recevoir, vous et Madame Couturat, à Cambridge pendant l’hiver. Croyez-moi
votre amicalement dévoué
Bertrand Russell.
BR TO LOUIS COUTURAT, 18 SEPT. 1900
BRACERS 53163. ALS(X). La Chaux-de-Fonds Bib., Suisse. SLBR 1: #88
Translated and edited by N. Griffin
High Buildings,1 Haslemere
18 09 1900
Dear Sir,
I was happy to receive your souvenir of Hanover, as I was pleased to hear that your stay had been profitable. Why don’t you publish the whole of the Leibniz MSS., since it seems that there still remains something of interest.
I promised to read the original English of the paper I read at the Congress to the Aristotelian Society in January. We usually publish the papers which are read, but I told them that I did not have the right to publish it. Do you know if there would be any objections to the English publication? It is not, moreover, a literal translation. I would like to publish it in England if I could, but I know that I need permission of the editor of the proceedings of the Congress.2
The Congress seemed to me an enormous success. For my part, I learned a great deal, and I met many scholars who interested me; the papers seemed to me to be for the most part of great importance. I heartily congratulate you and your friends from the Revue de métaphysiques, for having organized such a useful and enjoyable conference.
I have taken to studying the works of Peano and his disciples: I am considering writing an article for Mind, similar to the one you wrote for the Revue.3 I very much admire what Peano does for Arithmetic and Pieri4 for projective geometry: the formulaire5 also strikes me a great and beautiful enterprise, that I would like to see perfected.
Please give my regards to Mme Couturat and tell her that we count on seeing you and Mme Couturat in Cambridge during the winter.
With best wishes,
Bertrand Russell
- 1
High Buildings The Russells were staying with Logan.
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I would like to publish it in England … I need permission of the editor of the proceedings of the Congress. The French editors had no objection and the English version of Russell’s paper was published in Mind (1901).
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similar to the one you wrote for the RevueRussell wrote the article, “Recent Italian Work on the Foundations of Mathematics” but it remained unpublished. Couturat’s article, “La Logique mathématique de M. Peano”, had been published in the Revue de métaphysique in 1899.
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Pieri Mario Pieri, “I principia della geometria di posizione, composti in sistema logico deduttivo”, Memorie dell’accademia reale di Torino (1898). Having tried to axiomatize projective geometry himself, Russell was in a good position to appreciate Pieri’s work.
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formulaire Peano’s Formulario matematico, a project announced in 1892 for a compendium of all the known theorems in mathematics to be stated and proved using Peano’s logic.
