Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity–A Book Review
Journal: Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Year: 2013

During the nineteenth century, a foundational crisis in mathematics led to signal events of fundamental importance. The first was the creation of set theory by Georg Cantor at the end of the nineteenth century. The second was the creation of the theory of functions and of measure theory and integration theory by the French trio Emile Borel, Ren Baire, and Henri Lebesgue. Their works relied heavily on Cantor's set theory. A major contribution to the further development of set theory, function the