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Aczel, Amir. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Human Mind. New York, NY: Basic Books, (2000) "Aczel's compact and fascinating work o
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Aczel, Amir. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Human Mind. New York, NY: Basic Books, (2000)
"Aczel's compact and fascinating work of mathematical popularization uses the life and work of the German mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918) to describe the history of infinity--of human thought about boundlessly large numbers, sequences and sets." (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56858-105-7 https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56858-105-7)
This popularization makes an effort to explain truly mind bending ideas of infinity.