In Mathematics, The Art Of Asking Questions

The Fear Of Infinity Is A Form Of Myopia That Destroys The Possibility Of Seeing The Actual Infinite, Even Though It In Its Highest Form Has Created And Sustains Us, And In Its Secondary Transfinite Forms Occurs All Around Us And Even Inhabits Our Minds.

I Entertain No Doubts As To The Truths Of The Tranfinites, Which I Recognized With God's Help And Which, In Their Diversity, I Have Studied For More Than Twenty Years; Every Year, And Almost Every Day Brings Me Further In This Science.

Mathematics Is Entirely Free In Its Development, And Its Concepts Are Only Linked By The Necessity Of Being Consistent, And Are Co-ordinated With Concepts Introduced Previously By Means Of Precise Definitions.

A False Conclusion Once Arrived At And Widely Accepted Is Not Easily Dislodged And The Less It Is Understood The More Tenaciously It Is Held.

What I Assert And Believe To Have Demonstrated In This And Earlier Works Is That Following The Finite There Is A Transfinite (which One Could Also Call The Supra-finite), That Is An Unbounded Ascending Lader Of Definite Modes, Which By Their Nature Are Not Finite But Infinite, But Which Just Like The Finite Can Be Determined By Well-defined And Distinguishable Numbers.