"Before in mathematics, infinity had been a taboo subject. Previously, Gauss had stated that infinity should only be used as "a way of speaking" and not as a mathematical value. Most mathematicians followed his advice and stayed away. However, Georg Cantor would not leave it alone... his new ideas gained him numerous enemies. Many mathematicians just would not accept his groundbreaking ideas that shattered their safe world of mathematics... [Kronecker] did all he could to suppress Cantor's ideas and ruin his life... The rest of [Cantor's] life was spent in and out of mental institutions and his work nearly ceased completely... He died in a mental institution on January 6, 1918... Today, Cantor's work is widely accepted by the mathematical community. His theory on infinite sets reset the foundation of nearly every mathematical field and brought mathematics to its modern form."