Georg Cantor
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The literary works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges contain references to several ideas in modern mathematics. These include notions such as set theory, recursion, chaos, and infinite sequences, although Borges' strongest links to mathematics are through Georg Cantor's theory of infinite sets. The title of Borges' short story "The Aleph" is an allusion to Cantor's use of the Hebrew letter aleph (<math>\aleph</math>) to denote cardinality of transfinite sets. In particular, some of Borges' most popular works such as "The Library of Babel", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Aleph", "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" illustrate his use of mathematics.
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