Definition:Infinite Cardinal/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Infinite Cardinal
The formulation of the concept of an infinite cardinal was evolved as a generalisation of the notion of a natural numbers as a result of the work on infinite sets by Georg Cantor.
Sources
- 1972: Patrick Suppes: Axiomatic Set Theory (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.1$ Set Theory and the Foundations of Mathematics