Why does Cantor a target for cranks?

Why are there so many on this groups whose mathematical goal is to
disprove uncountability? I can't imagine, really, why it would be a
crank target.

The idea it not at all counterintutive (like relativity and quantum
mechanics are usually); in fact, if you can understand it at all, I
don't see how you could doubt it. Yet there are those whose intution,
apparently, is strange enouh to compass the portposition that the reals
are equinumerous with the counting numbers.

Beside's it's just a dead end - you'd think they'd want something more
interesting to work on ...

Andrew Usher

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  • Re: Why does Cantor a target for cranks?
    ... I can't imagine, really, why it would be a ... crank target. ... Cantor was a target for cranks and others because his name was not von Richthoffen or some such. ...
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  • Re: Why does Cantor a target for cranks?
    ... Bob Kolker wrote: ... I can't imagine, really, why it would be a ... crank target. ... Cantor was a target for cranks and others because his name was not von Richthoffen or some such. ...
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