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Full Idea
Cantor's development of set theory began with his discovery of the progression 0, 1, ....∞, ∞+1, ∞+2, ..∞x2, ∞x3, ...∞^2, ..∞^3, ...∞^∞, ...∞^∞^∞.....
Gist of Idea
Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation
Source
report of George Cantor (Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds) [1883]) by Shaughan Lavine - Understanding the Infinite VIII.2
Book Ref
Lavine,Shaughan: 'Understanding the Infinite' [Harvard 1994], p.247
15946 | Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine] |
15911 | Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine] |