War Quote by Charles Seife

“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now, we understand…

— Jordan Ellenberg

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert

“Infinity earned its rightful place as a legitimate mathematical concept towards the end of the nineteenth century. The two big players behind this were…

— Matt Parker

“No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. { Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor 's set theory…

— David Hilbert

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

— Leopold Kronecker

“In Cantor's mind there were an infinite number of infinities-the transfinite numbers-each nested in the other. Aleph 0 is smaller than Aleph 1, which…

— Charles Seife

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so…

— Leonhard Euler

“The danger of speaking about life exclusively in terms of problem and solution is that we are thus tempted to overlook the limitations of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics…

— Charles Seife

“ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...”

— Brajesh Kumar

“There were millions of different infinities and they weren’t only measured in time, but in people. And in each one, I could find a…

— Mackie Burt

“Infinite amounts of nothingness lie everywhere around. And still, there is no nothingness anywhere.”

— Klaudio Marashi