At the same time, there was growing opposition to Cantor's ideas, led by Leopold Kronecker, who admitted mathematical concepts only if they could be constructed in a finite number of steps from the natural numbers, which he took as intuitively given.
Ao mesmo tempo, medraba a oposición ás ideas de Cantor, liderada por Kronecker, quen só admitía conceptos matemáticos que se puideran construír nun número finito de pasos a partir dos números naturais, que el tomaba coma intuitivamente dados.