The Man Who Stole Infinity

“It was here, at the University of Halle in Germany, that Cantor launched his revolution 150 years ago. Here, in 1874, he published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history.

That paper crystallized a concept that had long been viewed as a mathematical malignancy to be shunned at all costs: #Infinity.

It forced mathematicians to question some of their longest-held assumptions, rocking mathematics to its very foundations. And it gave rise to a new field of study that would eventually bring about a rewriting of the entire subject.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/
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