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Matheology § 063
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Jul 8, 2012 4:37 AM
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Matheology § 063
{{It is impossible to order or to well-order items that cannot be
identified. Zermelos corresponding proof is incorrect - just as his
edition of Cantor's letters:}}
The final section of the correspondence with Cantor starts only in
July 1899. This was the part from which extracts were published in the
edition of Cantor's papers by Zermelo using the transcriptions made by
Cavaillès.
The standard of editing of the extracts is bad.[...] The collection
begins with a letter from Cantor of 28 July 1899. lt is the most
famous of them all [...] lt is often cited in the literature on the
foundations of mathematics, and was translated into English in [J. van
Heijenoort: "From Frege to Gödel ..." (1967, Cambridge, Mass.)
113-117.]
There does not exist a letter in this form.
[I. Grattan-Guinness: "The Rediscovery of the Cantor-Dedekind
Correspondence", Jahresbericht DMV 76 (1974) p. 126f.]
Regards, WM
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