Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > Do you mean Frege or Cantor?
Frege. Cantor was concerned with set theory, while Frege was concerned with logic in general. Frege's notation was different from what we use now but the issue was about the same: unrestricted comprehension led to contradiction. As you mention, Russell was the one who recognized the inconsistency in Frege's system, though I don't know how Frege took it at a personal level. Many of the original writings from that era are reproduced in the book "From Frege to GÓ§del: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic". It has good introductions to the papers and is pretty interesting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
