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History teaches the continuity of the development of science. We know that every age has its own problems, which the following age either solves or casts aside as profitless and replaces by new ones.

— David Hilbert Mathematical Problems (1900)

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One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created.

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