You can't get any bigger than infinite, right? Well, kind of. Late in the 19th century, German mathematician Georg Cantor showed that infinite comes in different types and sizes. Scientific American ...

Adrian Moore’s series on philosophical thought on infinity finds him mired in a near meltdown in mathematics. Adrian tells the story of the controversy caused by the work of the German mathematician, ...

Adrian Moore continues his exploration of two and a half millennia of philosophical thought on infinity. Discover the brilliant but tortured German mathematician, Georg Cantor, who devised a way of ...

This piece originally appeared on Nautilus. Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in ...

Infinity is bigger than any number. But saying just how much bigger is not so simple. In fact, infinity comes in infinitely many different sizes—a fact discovered by Georg Cantor in the late 1800s.