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the roamer<p>So good to see liberal America standing up to the Trumpian threat today. A strange thing happened to me as I followed the topical posts.</p><p>Each time I saw the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> hashtag, what my brain read instead was <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Hausdorff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hausdorff</span></a>, for Felix Hausdorff, the eminent mathematician.</p><p>To my shame, I knew nothing about Felix Hausdorff the man. To me as a former Berliner and an emigree to England, Hausdorff sounded like an East Prussian landed-gentry name, I expected a Junker. Wrong. Today I learnt that Felix Hausdorff was in fact Jewish. He, his wife and his sister in law escaped the death camps by suicide, in 1942. (His daughter Lenore survived.) I never knew. </p><p>So there really is a hidden connection between today's encouraging <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> news and Felix Hausdorff, the great thinker who was exposed to the same evil of unchecked state power that threatens us today, and against which today's protests took a stance. </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Hausdorff" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_</span><span class="invisible">Hausdorff</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Hausdorff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hausdorff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FelixHausdorff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FelixHausdorff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shoah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoah</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mathematicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematicians</span></a></p>
tomsharp<p>In 1918, Felix Hausdorff proposed a measure of roughness of an object that Benoit Mandelbrot later called the object’s fractal dimension. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Hausdorff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hausdorff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mandelbrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandelbrot</span></a> (<a href="https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1918d.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sharpgiving.com/thebookofscien</span><span class="invisible">ce/items/p1918d.html</span></a>)</p>
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