Unveiled Letters Cast Cantor’s Infinity Breakthrough in a New Light
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Quanta previews a special series on the evolving foundations of mathematics, highlighting newly unearthed letters that suggest Cantor’s 1874 proof of different-sized infinities may have involved plagiarism, underscoring ongoing efforts to rethink math’s core ideas.
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