Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 377, No. 2140, Theme issue: The notion of ‘simple proof’ - Hilbert’s 24th problem (11 March 2019), pp. 1-11 (11 pages) ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...

Georg Cantor's 1870 theorem that an everywhere convergent to zero trigonometric series has all its coefficients equal to zero is given a new proof. The new proof uses the first formal integral of the ...