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“Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!”

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German mathematician and founder of set theory, a pioneer in the theory of infinity. His research on the foundations and logical structure of mathematics has had a profound impact on modern mathematics. more

“The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false.”

May Whole Hands Reality Used Numbers Cases Concepts Consequence Bases Proof Distinction Neglect Quantity Entity Propositions Axioms

Author:Georg Cantor

“The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.”

Mean Matter Values Greater Limits Infinite Assuming Quantity Finite Variables

Author:Georg Cantor

“Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.”

Numbers Consistent Definite Cardinals Multiplicity

Author:Georg Cantor

“Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!”

Lasts Boys Camps Last Words

Author:George Armstrong Custer

“Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.”

Men Want Persons Opportunity Lost Victory Fairs Detroit

Author:George Rogers Clark

“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.”

States Suffering Given United Half Poverty United States Honor Consequence Territory Hereafter

Author:George Rogers Clark

“My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.”

Ifs Helping Hands Names Fellows Brave Helping Hand Kentucky

Author:George Rogers Clark

“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.”

“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Ifs World Way Mind Humans Children Art Dream Common Limits Draws Art Is Logic Common Sense Immortal Works Of Art

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.”

People Ifs Trying Littles Shows Light Kindness Streets Shining Blindness Narrow-minded

Author:Glen Campbell

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