[HM] Re: Mengenlehre, a disease from which one has recovered

Everdell@aol.com
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:07:57 EDT

Poincaré's remark is quoted more fully and the controversy described in Morris
Kline's _Mathematical Thought_, p1003 (Oxford UP pb, 1990, v3)

"But it has happeneds that we have encountered certain paradoxes, certain
apparent contradictions, which would have pleased Zeno of Elea and the School
of Megara [...] Later generations will regard [Cantor's] Mengenlehre as a
disease from which one has recovered." (Poincaré quoted in Kline, 1003)

-Bill Everdell, Brooklyn