Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
reading one of the PDFs referenced
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~aada&#x2F;courses&#x2F;15251f15&#x2F;www&#x2F;slides&#x2F;lec05.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~aada&#x2F;courses&#x2F;15251f15&#x2F;www&#x2F;slides&#x2F;lec0...</a><p>Why other mathematicians at the time, were so nasty towards Cantor&#x27;s ideas?
The quotes noted in the PDF -- just sound nasty and dismissive (or may be this is not the whole story)