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[What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor! As John D. Barrow writes in] The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, ... started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

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