Abstract
Cantor’s work on the foundations of set theory started about 1875. For about twenty years it met with distrust and hostility from mathematicians and indifference from philosophers. In the early 1890’s set theory became fashionable and was widely applied in analysis and geometry.
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Adamson, I.T. (1998). Introduction. In: A Set Theory Workbook. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8138-8_1
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