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Carolin Antos, Associated Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg affiliated with the Department of Philosophy,  presented her lecture "Conceptual Change in Set Theory - Combining Mathematics, Philosophy and History".

The mathematical discipline of set theory has a rather special status as it is also thought of as a foundation for mathematics. In her talk, Carolin shows how one of its subjects of study, the curious case of different sized infinities, began a development that eventually triggered a conceptual change in set theory. Carolin traces this change by working in mathematics, its philosophy and its history and she discusses some aspects of this interdisciplinary research with the audience.