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The mystery of the aleph : mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infinity / Amir D. Aczel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aczel, Amir D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infinite.
- Cabala.
- Cantor, Georg, 1845-1918.
- Cantor, Georg.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, [2000]
- Summary:
- This biography of troubled pioneer Georg Cantor (1845-1918), who created the set theory and the concept of infinite numbers, tells how he challenged the foundations of mathematics, yet languished in an asylum.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 156858105X
- OCLC:
- 44090620
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