Full Idea
We may describe Cantor's achievement by saying, not that he tamed the infinite, but that he extended the finite.
Gist of Idea
Cantor extended the finite (rather than 'taming the infinite')
Source
John Mayberry (What Required for Foundation for Maths? [1994], p.414-2)
Book Reference
'Philosophy of Mathematics: anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.414
Related Ideas
Idea 17798 Cantor presented the totality of natural numbers as finite, not infinite [Cantor, by Mayberry]
Idea 17799 Cantor's infinite is an absolute, of all the sets or all the ordinal numbers [Mayberry]