Had Mittag-leffler Had His Way, I Should

The Fear Of Infinity Is A Form Of Myopia That Destroys The Possibility Of Seeing The Actual Infinite, Even Though It In Its Highest Form Has Created And Sustains Us, And In Its Secondary Transfinite Forms Occurs All Around Us And Even Inhabits Our Minds.

What I Assert And Believe To Have Demonstrated In This And Earlier Works Is That Following The Finite There Is A Transfinite (which One Could Also Call The Supra-finite), That Is An Unbounded Ascending Lader Of Definite Modes, Which By Their Nature Are Not Finite But Infinite, But Which Just Like The Finite Can Be Determined By Well-defined And Distinguishable Numbers.

There Is No Doubt That We Cannot Do Without Variable Quantities In The Sense Of The Potential Infinite. But From This Very Fact The Necessity Of The Actual Infinite Can Be Demonstrated.

This View [of The Infinite], Which I Consider To Be The Sole Correct One, Is Held By Only A Few. While Possibly I Am The Very First In History To Take This Position So Explicitly, With All Of Its Logical Consequences, I Know For Sure That I Shall Not Be The Last!

Had Mittag-leffler Had His Way, I Should Have To Wait Until The Year 1984, Which To Me Seemed Too Great A Demand!