Arnold Reymond
portrait from 1933 by Oskár Lázár

Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science.

Life

The grave of Reymond and his wife Marie-Louise, née Maurer (1885-1976), at the cemetery of Pully.

Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathématiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind.[1] Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget.[2] In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.[3]

Works

  • Logique et mathématiques: essai historique et critique sur le nombre infini, Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste, 1908
  • Histoire des sciences exactes et naturelles dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Paris: 1924. Translated as History of the sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927[4]
  • Les penseurs de la Grèce; histoire de la philosophie antique, 1928
  • Les principes de la logique et la critique contemporaine, 1932
  • Philosophie spiritualiste; études et méditations, recherches critiques, 1942
  • L'Histoire des sciences et la philosophie des sciences, 1949

References

  1. ↑ Bertrand Russell, Mind 18 (April 1909), p.299-301
  2. ↑ Fernando Vidal, Piaget before Piaget, 1994, p.123
  3. ↑ The collected papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6, p.60
  4. ↑ Smith, David Eugene (1927). "Reymond on Science in Antiquity". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (6): 783–784. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1927-04480-9.


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