  Brouwer’s impact looms large in Weyl’s 1921 paper, On the New  Foundational Crisis of Mathematics. Here Weyl identifies two distinct views of the continuum: “atomistic” or  “discrete”; and “continuous”. In the first of these the continuum is composed of individual real numbers which are  well-defined and can be sharply distinguished. Weyl describes his  earlier attempt at reconstructing analysis in Das Kontinuum as  atomistic in this sense: