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 … - Georg Cantor

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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.

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About Georg Cantor

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (3 March 1845 – 6 January 1918) was a Russian-born German mathematician and philosopher of Danish and Austrian descent, most famous as the creator of set theory, and of Cantor's theorem which implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities."

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Native Name: George Cantor
Alternative Names: Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor Cantor
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