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'''Georg Cantor''' (1845-1918) was a [[Russian]]-[[German]]<ref>Cantor's mother was a Russian [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]], while his father was a German [[Protestant]]; Cantor was born in Russia but moved to Germany, where he was never comfortable, as a boy.</ref> [[mathematician]] who is considered one of the greatest ever because he created the field of [[Set theory|Set Theory]].<ref>Cantor's founding of Set Theory was in several papers he wrote between 1874 and 1897.</ref>  '''''His motivation was to understand the [[Christian]] concept of [[eternity]]'''''.  He dedicated his last publication to a passage from [[1 Corinthians (Translated)|1 Corinthians]]:  "The time will come when these things which are now hidden from you will be brought into the light."<ref>http://www.acmsonline.org/Dauben-Cantor.pdf</ref>  Cantor also liked this quote from [[Augustine]]'s ''[[City of God]]'': “All [[infinity]] is in some ineffable way made finite to [[God]], for it is comprehended by his knowledge.

'''Georg Cantor''' (1845-1918) was a [[Russian]]-[[German]]<ref>Cantor's mother was a Russian [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]], while his father was a German [[Protestant]]; Cantor was born in Russia but moved to Germany, where he was never comfortable, as a boy.</ref> [[mathematician]] who is considered one of the greatest ever because he created the field of [[Set theory|Set Theory]].<ref>Cantor's founding of Set Theory was in several papers he wrote between 1874 and 1897.</ref>  '''''His motivation was to understand the [[Christian]] concept of [[eternity]]'''''.  He dedicated his last publication to a passage from [[1 Corinthians (Translated)|1 Corinthians]]:  "The time will come when these things which are now hidden from you will be brought into the light."<ref>http://www.acmsonline.org/Dauben-Cantor.pdf</ref>  Cantor also liked this quote from [[Augustine]]'s ''[[City of God]]'': “All [[infinity]] is in some ineffable way made finite to [[God]], for it is comprehended by his knowledge."<ref>[https://www.biblehub.com/library/augustine/city_of_god/chapter_18_against_those_who_assert.htm ''City of God'', Chapter 18].</ref>

There was an intense vilification of Cantor due to [[infinity denial]], which persists to this day although Cantor has been fully vindicated.  Because he was harshly ostracized by fellow mathematicians for earnestly inquiring into the nature of infinity, and was improperly denied a faculty position despite his achievements, he spent the second half of his life mostly in impoverished living conditions and some despair. Cantor "believed that opposition to the use of actual infinities in [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], and [[theology]] was based upon a common and pervasive error."<ref>https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Cantor/Cantor.html</ref>

There was an intense vilification of Cantor due to [[infinity denial]], which persists to this day although Cantor has been fully vindicated.  Because he was harshly ostracized by fellow mathematicians for earnestly inquiring into the nature of infinity, and was improperly denied a faculty position despite his achievements, he spent the second half of his life mostly in impoverished living conditions and some despair. Cantor "believed that opposition to the use of actual infinities in [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], and [[theology]] was based upon a common and pervasive error."<ref>https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Cantor/Cantor.html</ref>