“No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created.”

— David Hilbert, Über das Unendliche

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.
"Über das Unendliche" [On the Infinite] in Mathematische Annalen 95, (1926)

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