> Dear Listmembers,
> Could someone confirm (or deny) whether the Hebraic letter "aleph" is the
> first letter of the word meaning "infinite" in Hebrew? Thank you.
> AJFO
>
This is quite true. The Hebrew word is "einsof", literally meaning "no
end", and it begins with aleph. Dauben, in his book _Georg Cantor_,
p.179, argues that Cantor chose Aleph because it is the first letter of
the Hebrew alphabet. As far as I remember, Prof. A.Fraenkel claimed the
same, when I learned set theory from him.
Avinoam Mann