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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
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Von Neumann's Math Rescue
- Von Neumann aimed to remove the concept of 'sets of all sets' from the definitions of cardinality and ordinality.
- This was an initial effort to preserve Cantor's set theory, which was essential for mathematical manipulation and theorem proving.
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