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 ...

It’s also infinite. Both are infinite, yes, but are they the same? Isn’t one infinity bigger than the other? That’s the question that Georg Cantor, a German mathematician who died shortly ...

Adrian tells the story of the controversy caused by the work of the German mathematician, Georg Cantor, on the infinite. In a world of paradoxes, we meet the nun who can't decide whether to pray ...

Discover the brilliant but tortured German mathematician, Georg ... Cantor himself suffered a complete breakdown in his mental health. As Adrian takes us with him deep into the world of infinite ...

Aczel's compact and fascinating work of mathematical popularization uses the life and work of the German mathematician Georg Cantor ... who made infinite series a basis for famous puzzles ...