The Mystery Of The Aleph by Amir D. Aczel
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
A narrative blending biography, history and mathematics that traces the rise of transfinite set theory through the life and struggles of its founder, exploring his revolutionary ideas about different sizes of infinity, the fierce opposition he faced from contemporaries, the philosophical and theological implications of his work, and the eventual impact of his discoveries on modern mathematics and thought.
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- 2000
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