Adolf Weissmann

Adolf Gustav Weissmann (18 November 1898) was a German philosopher, composer, and mathematician born in Dresden. He wrote extensively on metaphysics, epistemology, homeomorphism, and music theory. His main works include the Implications, a 'meditation on structural indeterminism', and the Discourses, a compilation of transcripts from Weissman's lectures in Europe and the United States. Weissmann led a notoriously reclusive existence. Some time between 1921 and 1923, he retreated to a remote hermitage near Kleiner Arbersee, where he is thought to have written the Implications. The vast majority of his manuscripts has been lost. Weissmann is also allegedly the true author of Adeste Fideles.
The Implications are divided into seventeen chapters. Authors and scholars have contemplated the existence of an 18th chapter which would explain Weissman's cryptic language and, perhaps, provide clues to the reading of the Implications.
Although Weissmann is currently not a prestigious name in philosophy as it was before, the Bochum School, named after the city in which Weissmann finished editing the Implications, remains a pillar in contemporary thought, based to a great extent in Weissmann's seminal work, mainly the concept of structural indeterminism and the negative zero. The works of Jonas Schweinsteiger and Heinrich A. Neuland (mainly his subsequent work on the negative zero, which he later named 'inverted zero') complete the Bochum School.

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