“I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the transfinites, which I recognized with God’s help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.”

— Georg Cantor

As quoted in Modern Mathematicians, (1995) by Harry Henderson. ~ ISBN 0816032351

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mathematician, inventor of set theory 1845–1918

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