Adrian Moore on Georg Cantor and the Size of Infinity

 

The sixth episode of Adrian Moore’s radio ‘A History of the Infinite’ is concerned with the infinitely big, considered not in terms of physical size, but in the context of mathematics. It focuses on the work of the German mathematician, Georg Cantor, who devised a way of distinguishing between different infinite sizes, and of calculating with infinite numbers. Cantor was the first to do such a thing.  One of the most interesting developments in modern mathematics, and as Moore says, his work w...