At least to begin with, Georg Cantor was just interested in the behavior of Fourier series. His studies, though, were to lead to a thorough restructuring of the foundations of mathematics, and touch off a civil war (not over personal pique, as in the case of Newton/Leibniz, but over fundamental issues concerning the nature of mathematics) that still sputters along to this day.
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