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