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@lobsters@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

The Man Who Stole Infinity https://lobste.rs/s/qm55ud #historical #math
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

Quanta Magazine

The Man Who Stole Infinity

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.
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