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I wrote a bit about Cantor's quest to get people to take infinity seriously here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-cantor-on-infinity https://

• woopsn 3y ago
  Great series. It really humanizes Cantor for me to see him trying to walk back a claim in those letters. I did my senior project on the continuum hypothesis, up through Paul Cohen's proof of it's independence (he wrote a short book about it that is very clear and accessible). Thanks for sharing, was very interesting to learn a little more about Cantor's motivations and the contemporary reaction to his ideas outside mathematics.
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