Re: Why does Cantor a target for cranks?

Bob Kolker wrote:
Andrew Usher wrote:

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.

Cantor was (and is) a target for cranks and others because his name was not von Richthoffen or some such. No self respecting von Richthoffen would have called his first transfinite cardinal by the name "aleph".

Bob Kolker


Thanks for the anti-semitism, there, Bob. Now, back to your goose-stepping workout.

Tony Orlow
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