| To Infinity and
Beyond! Cantor and the Transfinite Numbers Georg
Cantor (1845-1918) was the first mathematician to show that there
exist different types of infinity. In fact, he was able to prove that
there are infintely many different types of infinity! He inaugurated a
method which we know now as Cantor's diagonalization argument.You can read more about Cantor's diagonalization in this Wikipedia article or this PlanetMath.org article. |
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