This piece originally appeared on Nautilus. 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 ...

One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...

This problem of infinity was pondered by Georg Cantor. What he concluded started him down a road that wound through infamy, through respectability, and wound up in theology. Find out more than anyone ...

Georg Cantor was a German mathematician of Iberian Jewish descent whom Bertrand Russell considered to be one of the greatest minds of the 19th century. In the course of a colorful but unhappy life, ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue. Since its inception in 1912, Isis has featured scholarly articles, research notes and commentary on the history of ...

In the 1995 film Toy Story, the gung-ho space action figure Buzz Lightyear tirelessly incants his catchphrase: “To infinity... and beyond!” The joke, of course, is rooted in the perfectly reasonable ...

Founded in 1876, the Revue Philosophique publishes four issues per year. Most are issues devoted either to a fundamental notion, or to a great period in the history of thought, or to an author - ...

Adrian Moore’s series on philosophical thought on infinity finds him mired in a near meltdown in mathematics. Adrian tells the story of the controversy caused by the work of the German mathematician, ...

In 1963 it was proved that a celebrated mathematical hypothesis put forward by Georg Cantor could not be proved. This profound development is explained by analogy with non-Euclidean geometry ...