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FREUDENTHAL HANS: (1905-1990) Jewish-German-born Dutch mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology. Concluding third (and final) page of a T.L.S., Hans Freudenthal, one page, 4to, Utrecht, 17th September 1966, to Henri Corbiere, on the printed stationery of the Mathematics Institute at the University of Utrecht, in French. Freudenthal's text states, in part, 'And the great problems of humanity? Is it permissible to cross them out with a few strokes of the pen? No, we put them in brackets. The way to the solution of big mathematical problems is paved by the hard work of those who do not disdain small problems. Despite all our theories, the truths of our existence would be demonstrated by future facts which the individual does not know, but which the human race will know…..Otherwise it will have well deserved its fate which would not be different from that of the saurian of the tertiary.' Together with a vintage unsigned 3.5 x 4.5 photograph of Freudenthal seated in a half-length pose at his desk, smoking a pipe, and with a pen in one hand. Annotated in the hand of Henri Corbiere to the verso and dated 2nd August 1967. Two small staple holes to the upper left corner of the letter, otherwise VG, 2
