The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel sync error a medium for modern literary

a medium for modern literary criticism

beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz

Two appendixes list Yiddish publications in the book series Dos poylishe yidntum (published in Buenos Aires

and in particular the title poem

The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel sync error a medium for modern literaryFrom the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history's most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the 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. His ideas brought expected denunciation from established corners he was called a "corruptor of