Aczel's compact and fascinating work of mathematical popularization uses the life and work of the German mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918) to describe the history of infinity--of human thought ...

Georg Cantor was a German mathematician of Iberian Jewish descent whom Bertrand Russell considered to be one of the greatest minds of the 19th century. In the course of a colorful but unhappy life, ...

NEW YORK — Despite being in existence for more than 2,000 years, the concept of infinity has endured as an enigmatic, and oftentimes challenging, idea for mathematicians, physicists and philosophers.