My Beautiful Proof Lies All In Ruins.

The Actual Infinite Arises In Three Contexts: First When It Is Realized In The Most Complete Form, In A Fully Independent Otherworldly Being, In Deo, Where I Call It The Absolute Infinite Or Simply Absolute; Second When It Occurs In The Contingent, Created World; Third When The Mind Grasps It In Abstracto As A Mathematical Magnitude, Number Or Order Type.

I Entertain No Doubts As To The Truths Of The Tranfinites, Which I Recognized With God's Help And Which, In Their Diversity, I Have Studied For More Than Twenty Years; Every Year, And Almost Every Day Brings Me Further In This Science.

Mathematics Is Entirely Free In Its Development, And Its Concepts Are Only Linked By The Necessity Of Being Consistent, And Are Co-ordinated With Concepts Introduced Previously By Means Of Precise Definitions.

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

The Potential Infinite Means Nothing Other Than An Undetermined, Variable Quantity, Always Remaining Finite, Which Has To Assume Values That Either Become Smaller Than Any Finite Limit No Matter How Small, Or Greater Than Any Finite Limit No Matter How Great.