Georg Cantor, Paradigm Deceiver

Georg Cantor was born to a Lutheran banker and his converted wife in St. Petersburg in 1845. Georg grew to be a happy but solitary child. His parents taught him to love the arts and the academia, but most importantly they taught him the maxim of Infinite Possibility. At Real School Georg learned to right triangles and wrong those who disagreed with him.

Following his parents' Prime Directive, after graduating from Real School in 1860 with First Class Honours, Georg went boldly where no European had gone before: the Australian Desert. He was welcomed by the Hibiti Aborigines, where he learned firsthand the value of meditating for hours under an ozone-filtered sun. After two years of contentment in his new life, war broke out between the Hibiti tribe and the English Colonial Army. Georg fought valiantly for the Hibiti, and on the second day of fighting was taken prisoner by the English. The Hibiti's boomerangs proved no match for English guns, and the war was over in only five days. The Hibiti tribe was completely wiped out. Georg was devastated, but also inspired, and after being released by the English he returned to Europe to study Number Theory at the Swiss Institute of Technology.

Georg excelled in the classroom, but not with his classmates. Nobody could tolerate his long beard, which he kept unshaven in honour of his fallen Hibiti clansmen. Nobody except Countess Maria von Holstein, that is, who was attending the Institute disguised as a man. Love blossomed between the Countess and Georg, who was the sole keeper of her secret. However, three weeks into the second semester, they were caught together by the Professor of Doric Pillars on the fourth floor of the architecture building, and were turned in to Dean Arhnhesrt. The Dean, jealous of the Countess for taming the wild Georg, expelled them both. After leaving the university premises with his beloved Maria, Georg dreamed of their future together. But he was not aware of the extent of his lover's deception, and the Countess, undeterred by failure at that school, enrolled at the Vienna School for the Sciences, leaving her temporary lover without shedding a complementary tear.

Georg was bewildered and heartbroken. He decided he was ill at those Numbers, and needing the guidance of his parents, decided to return home. Georg's father was appalled by his son's beard and demanded he shave it, but Georg refused. Georg's father was so frustrated that he didn't look both ways while he was crossing the street, and was trampled to death by a team of horses.

After this Third Tragedy in the life of Georg, he began to question his parents' maxim of Infinite Possibility. He realized that bad was just as possible as good, and that Infinite Possibility did not preclude Infinite Impossibility. Georg decided that nobody should again be deceived as he had. He shaved his beard, and enrolled in the Study of Infinite Sets at the University of Berlin in 1863. There, Georg used unprecedented Two-Dimensional Thinking to develop his Diagonal Argument, to put into mathematical terms what he had learned so firmly from his own life.