Eleanor Jourdain — Oxford vice-principal, and sister of the mathematician Philip Jourdain — wrote On the Theory of the Infinite in Modern Thought as two introductory studies bridging worlds that rarely spoke: the mathematician’s infinite of Cantor and the philosopher’s infinite of idealist metaphysics, each explained to the other’s audience.
It is a short, earnest, very Edwardian attempt to make the new mathematics of infinity philosophically respectable. Download the free EPUB for the infinite as polite Oxford conversation.