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Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!
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The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.
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Born:
March 3, 1845
Died:
January 6, 1918
(aged 72)
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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a German mathematician. He invented set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
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