Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Cantor's Infinities
Speaker: Professor John H. Conway
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Brief Description:
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #3
Abstract:
No recent mathematician has had more influence on the way mathematics is done today than Georg Cantor (1845-1918). His greatest achievement is undoubtedly the theory of transfinite ordinal and cardinal numbers.Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000