Morris Kline Quote

Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. "Later generations," he said in 1908, "will regard set theory as a disease from which one has recovered.


Morris Kline (1982). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-503085-3.


Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. Later generations, he said in 1908, will regard set theory as a...

Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. Later generations, he said in 1908, will regard set theory as a...

Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. Later generations, he said in 1908, will regard set theory as a...

Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. Later generations, he said in 1908, will regard set theory as a...