Correspondence of Marcel Riesz with Swedes. Part II. file: Riesz1.tex

0.2. NILS JURINGIUS AND MOTHER ANNA 15
Majorsgatan 10.
Translation:
Mr. Doctor M. Riesz, Stockholm
As I find it hard to describe by phone the contents of Nils’ last letter – which in a
way is an answer to the questions that we dealt with in our last conversation – I beg you
to allow me send you some excerpts from it, asking you, after having read them, to be as
kind to say me over the phone, 74435, your oppinion. It is essiest to reach me at home at
1-2 o’clock in the morning or around 5 in th evening.
Thus Nils writes: - - - - - “Professor Hardy wrote that next term here would be
rewarding. What he may mean with this, I do not undestand, if not that there may come
foreign guests, as the highet lectures in pure mathematics will be only the following:
• Hobson: calculus of variations,
• White: finite groups and Galois theory;
• Pollard: topology of the Euclidean plane;
• Newman: analysis situs, that is the same I heard him talk abour last term.
Maybe one can also count Young to this: dynamical equations. And then the great
Edington gives five lectures on the theory of relativity, but 5 talks on this subjects I have
heard before by professor Bolin. Hobson is a very clear speaker, says Young, but dr. Riesz
that he is less rewarding, the same seems to be the oppinion of young Mr. Heens (docent
in Edinburgth). To me they do not appeal much.
I shall go and see Professor Newman to find out if anything of interest may come up.
— It seems that Professor Bendixson leaves me completely free in the choice of lectures.
— There is nobody here for me to consult in the choice of a topic for a thesis. — If I
stay also for the Easter term I must ask for a prolongation of my recidence permit (when
Nils arrived he got recidence permit for only 3 months), and then there will be again a
lot of paper work, and the answer may be negative as last time in November. — Summa
summarum: If nothing particularly interesting, which I do not know now, will occur here
next term, I hardly think that there will be no idea to remain over this term.” —— So
far Nils.
Asking you for fortgiveness for allt trouble, we create you,
Yours faithfully, Anna Juringius