“35. I.e., presumably, ‘of-George-Cantor,’ Cantor being the 1900s-era set theorist (German also) and more or less founder of transfinite mathematics, the man who proved some infinities were bigger than other infinities, and whose 1905-ish Diagonal Proof demonstrated that there can be an infinity of things between any two things no matter how close together the two things are, which D. Proof deeply informed Dr. J. Incandenza’s sense of the transstatistical aesthetics of serious tennis.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 994.

“…that there can be an infinity of things between any two things no matter how close together the two things are.” So, it’s been transfinite mathematics all along and not just boiler plate interpersonal distrust that has impressed itself upon me over the years. Deprecating joking aside, the philosophical implications of Cantorian infinities, even on the most rudimentary levels that a mathematical clod like me can envision, are thought –provoking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor