A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
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What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor As John D. Barrow writes in The Infinite Book A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, ... started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.Georg Cantor
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The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
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