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George Adams Kaufmann, (8 February 1894, Marijampolė Eastern Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – 30 March 1963, Edgbaston by Birmingham, UK) was a British mathematician, translator and anthroposophist. He travelled widely, spoke several languages and translated many of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures consecutively into English. Through his studies in theoretical physics he contributed much to the expansion and development of the natural sciences as extended by the concepts of anthroposophy.〔(George Adams Kaufmann – Article by Renatus Ziegler for Forschungsstelle Kulturimpuls retrieved 2014.10.01 )〕 ==Youth== George Adam’s father, Georg von Kaufmann, a British national of German descent, was a pioneer of the oil industry. His mother was born Adams in England. Shortly after the George’s birth, the family moved to Solotwina in the foothills of the Carpathians. In 1897, when he was three years old, his parents separated and his mother was obliged to return to England alone, leaving her three children behind her. It was only in the 1930’s, a short while before her death, that Adams saw her again. The father married again – a young German woman, who created for George and his siblings a happy childhood with many intensive experiences in their natural surroundings. Educated by English governesses, he was raised to fluency in several languages, primarily English, German and Polish. From 1905, Adams began to attend the Mill Hill School in England, travelling home alone to his family in Galicia. In 1912 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge majoring in chemistry and completing his B.A. in 1915. Deeply preoccupied with problems of social reform, he rejected all manner of violence, remaining a pacifist throughout the First World War – a “militant revolutionary” as he described himself. Twice he did time as a conscientious objector and was only released after undergoing a hunger strike. The atomistic and materialistic thoughts of his time failed to satisfy him, causing him to seek for alternatives in the work of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russel. On questioning Russel on how to reach satisfactory conclusions in theoretical physics without the hypothesis of the atom, Russel encouraged him to study projective geometry. Following this advice, Adams began to concern himself primarily with mathematics and theoretical physics. He heard lectures by G. H. Hardy and began to research projective, non-Euclidean Geometry. In 1918 he brought his studies to an end as Magister Artium Cantabrigiensis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Adams Kaufmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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