``What fermented in me for years'': Cantor's discovery of transfinite numbers (Q1842106)
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``What fermented in me for years'': Cantor's discovery of transfinite numbers (English)
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6 September 1995
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As is well known, George Cantor originally called his transfinite numbers `infinite symbols', as he was unable to find a proper foundation for them. The author argues that the next stage of his searches were motivated especially by theorems on the transfinite decomposition of sets of certain kinds.
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G. Cantor
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set theory
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