Dangerous Knowledge
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds
Georg Cantor
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
Georg Cantor
Cantor’s Continuum hypothesis
is a hypothesis, advanced by Georg Cantor in 1877, about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states:
There is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers.
This problem led both Georg Cantor and Kurt Godel to insanity
