
Notes
3
Dauben (1979, p. 120).
4
Frege (1892, p. 272). This citation is of a review by Frege of some of Cantor’s
work. More will be said about this review later in this chapter.
5
For biographical information about Cantor, I have relied on Grattan-Guinness
(1971), Purkert and Ilgauds (1987), and Meschkowsk (1983).
6
Meschkowsk (1983, p. 1) (my translation).
7
Great interest by mathematicians and physicists in trigonometric series was
stimulated by the surprising discovery by the French mathematician Fourier early
in the nineteenth century that there was little apparent limitation to what they
could converge to. An example of a trigonometric series is
cos