Timeline for What are some examples of narrowly missed discoveries in the history of mathematics?
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| Apr 8, 2015 at 7:56 | comment | added | Goldstern | Cantor not only discovered and rigorously defined the idea of equinumerosity of infinite sets, he also gave an explicit example of two infinite set of distinct cardinalities. I do not see anything like that in Galileo's argument. | |
| Mar 26, 2010 at 3:02 | comment | added | Simon Thomas | Perhaps you would prefer the wording that I use when I teach a first course in set theory? "In his final scientific work, the Two New Sciences, Galileo blew his chance of becoming a famous set theorist." | |
| Mar 25, 2010 at 19:36 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | I fundamentally disagree with this statement. It's like claiming that Jules Verne almost put a man on the moon. | |
| Mar 25, 2010 at 19:02 | history | answered | Simon Thomas | CC BY-SA 2.5 |