RE: [OT] How many integers?
> From: Igor Kachan [mailto:kinz at peterlink.ru]
> > Well, I've heard that you guys have some pretty sharp
> > mathematicians, so I won't disagree with you
> > (though IMHO it was a Frenchman who was probably the
> > greatest pioneer in this area--Cauchy--so I wonder
> > what the French would say?).
>
> This is a German source, Cantor's theory,
> he was the first setman-hostman-multitudeman 
<blush> You're correct. Not sure what I was thinking (must have gotten a
Cauchy Sequence confused with a Cantor Set). Although I believe his parents
were Danish, he lived in Russia for a while before moving to Frankfurt (he
also spent a year at the University of Zurich).
Matt Lewis
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