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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held conce...

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Georg Cantor

Mathematician

Born: 1845-03-03

Died: 1918-01-06

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (3 March 1845 – 6 January 1918) was a Russian-born German mathematician and philosopher of Danish and Austrian descent, most famous as the creator of set theory, and of Cantor's theorem which implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities."More