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It was adapted into standard Yiddish by Mario Moishele Alfonso and edited by Emil Kalin and Nikolaj Olniansky

The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel sync error While Jewish society surely hadFrom the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history's most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the Aleph tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845 1918), a Russian born German who created set theory, the concept of infinite numbers, and the "continuum hypothesis," which challenged the very foundations of mathematics. His ideas brought expected denunciation from established corners he was called a "corruptor of