Lawrence Wilkinson

Cantor's proof that there are differently sized infinities changed math; it was also an act of plagiarism: "The Man Who Stole Infinity" @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- VallΓ©e Poussin)

Credit where credit's due: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/02/i-am-never-forget-the-day-i-first-meet-the-great-lobachevsky-in-one-word-he-told-me-secret-of-success-in-mathematics-plagiarize/

#cantor #culture #demiangoos #georgcantor #history #infinity #karinrichter #mathematics #pousin #primenumbertheorem #primenumbers #richarddedekind #science #tomlehrer #valleepousin

Mar 2 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadπŸ’‘πš‚π—†π–Ίπ—‹π—π—†π–Ίπ—‡ π™°π—‰π—‰π—ŒπŸ“±Mar 3
@LHWilkinson
It was never a proof to begin with, anymore than had Cantor written 1+1=3 and claimed that "proved" that 1+1=3
https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115642725878742794
πŸ’‘πš‚π—†π–Ίπ—‹π—π—†π–Ίπ—‡ π™°π—‰π—‰π—ŒπŸ“± (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 1/7 This air-quote #Mathematics unquote article https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/ keeps appearing in my feed, and I initially made some comments the first time, debunking it from a #Maths point-of-view, but given how it keeps popping up I think I need to do a more thorough #MathsMonday thread about it Firstly, the author is a Physics journo, so you can take what he says about #math with a grain of salt (for some reason I see a lot of them doing this overreach, instead of checking with a Mathematician)…

dotnet.social