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"... wir nennen die ihr zukommende Cardinalzahl 'Alef-null', in Zeichen 0 ... ... we call the cardinal number related to that 'Aleph-null', in symbol, 0 ..."
"When Cantor finally decided that the transfinite cardinals required a separate notation of their own, he felt that all the usual alphabets, the familiar Greek or Roman letters, were too widely used for other purposes both specific and general. ... Not wishing to invent a new symbol himself, he chose the aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The choice was especially clever, as he was happy to admit, since the Hebrew aleph served simultaneously to represent the number one, and the transfinite numbers, as cardinal numbers, were themselves infinite unities. In addition, it might be said that as the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the aleph could be taken to represent new beginnings, and he certainly believed that his theory of transfinite numbers represented a new beginning for mathematics."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.