The Mathematician Who Tried to Convince the Catholic Church of Two Infinities

In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...
Wired

Some Infinities Are Larger Than Others: The Tragic Story of a Math Heretic

You can't get any bigger than infinite, right? Well, kind of. Late in the 19th century, German mathematician Georg Cantor showed that infinite comes in different types and sizes. Scientific American ...
Salon

When a hypothesis is neither true nor false

This piece originally appeared on Nautilus. Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in ...
Nature

Georg Cantor Gesammelte Abhandlungen: Mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts mit erläuternden Anmerkungen sowie mit Ergänzungen aus dem Briefwechsel Cantor-Dedekind

“INFINITY,” wrote the schoolboy, “is the place where things happen that don't.” Similar opinions concerning the paradoxes which arise from the consideration of the infinite and the infinitesimal have ...
Gizmodo

The odd genius who showed that one infinity was greater than another

This problem of infinity was pondered by Georg Cantor. What he concluded started him down a road that wound through infamy, through respectability, and wound up in theology. Find out more than anyone ...
Psychology Today

When Infinity Yields Infinity: AI's Mathematical Promise

When mathematician Georg Cantor first glimpsed the true nature of infinity, it changed mathematics forever. He demonstrated that infinity isn’t just endless; it exists in different sizes, each opening ...