Cantor’s Mathematics of Infinity


	Cantor’s Mathematics of Infinity

Mohir

11-18-2007 3:16 PM

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cantor, mathematics, infinity

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11-18-2007 4:17 PM

wildcat

Cantor! Yessss!!

11-18-2007 4:23 PM

Mohir

and a greater infinity

11-18-2007 6:32 PM

Herorat

wow some how that made sense but was so confusing at the same time, thanks for posting it!

11-19-2007 6:11 AM

Rashid Malik

Amazing! Awe inspiring! A great mind.

11-19-2007 11:11 AM

syncopath

awe inspiring indeed.

11-19-2007 11:15 AM

syncopath

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)

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