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AbstractIn the 19th century, perennial concerns about the role of infinity in mathematics were finally addressed by the development of set theory and formal logic. Set theory was proposed as a mathematical theory of infinity and formal logic was proposed as a mathematical theory of proof (partly to avoid the paradoxes that seem to arise when reasoning about infinity).

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