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Unread 12-17-2017, 09:14 AM
Orwn Acra Orwn Acra is offline
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I don't understand the quote fully, but infinity has been squared away through reason via Dedekind, Cantor, and Russell. Only one of them went mad but he was mad already and the notion of the mathematician reaching new heights of nous at the expense of his sanity is one the poets invented.
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