However, this paper shows that the diagonal argument cannot be applied to the sequence of potentially infinite number of potentially infinite binary fractions. First, the original form of Cantor’s ...

You can't get any bigger than infinite, right? Well, kind of. Late in the 19th century, German mathematician Georg Cantor showed that infinite comes in different types and sizes. Scientific ...

Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in the 1870s. At the time, his ideas ...