Cantor, Georg. Über die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen.
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1886.
?First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 10; title-page browned, original rear plain wrapper present, front wrapper
lacking with, loosely inserted at rear, Cantor’sprinted letter ‘Über die verschiedenen Standpunkte in
Bezug auf die actualunendliche’, 4pp., slightly trimmed, sellotape stain.
Provenance: From the library of Ivor Grattan-Guinness, with his ownership inkstamp to title-page of main
work.
Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar Band II. N:o 19. Cantor’s article provides a statement on
the necessity of differentiating between theoretical and actual entities. It is accompanied by Cantor’s 1885
letter, printed in the Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Philosophische Kritik of 1886, to his colleague Gustav
Eneström.
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