Edmund Husserl. Phenomenology. Philosophy of arithmetic
Edmund Husserl was born in 1859 in Prossnitz (Moravia). During his studies – from 1876 at the University of Leipzig, from 1878 in Berlin, from 1881 in Vienna – he was primarily interested in mathematics, physics and astronomy. Among his university mentors were the famous mathematicians Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass. In 1882, Husserl defended his dissertation on “Some Problems in the Theory of the Calculus of Variations”. After receiving his degree, he worked for some time as Weierstrass’s private assistant.