I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Georg CantorAbout author
- Author's profession: Mathematician
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 3, 1845
- Died: January 6, 1918
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