Ayalur Krishnan
How a Hypothesis Can Be Neither True Nor False
Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in the 1870s. At the time, his ideas received hostile opposition from prominent mathematicians in Europe, chief among them Leopold Kronecker, once Cantor’s teacher. In his first known bout of […]
The Deepest Uncertainty
When a hypothesis is neither true nor false.
