The Mystery of the Aleph Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
, by Aczel, Amir D.- ISBN: 9780743422994 | 0743422996
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2001
"Aleph" tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born German who created set theory, the concept of infinite numbers, and the "continuum hypothesis", which challenged the very foundations of mathematics. Illustrations.