On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, christophe delriviere wrote:
> I certainly believe the second one to be more significative, Zindell Being a
> mathematician if i remember well. So perhaps a little search on mathematical
> resources on the net could quickly give the information needed ;)
Indeed, I would imagine that the mathematical reference is the reason for choosing the name Aleph... The alephs are the infinite cardinal numbers, beginning with aleph-null and continuing with aleph-1, aleph-2, aleph-n...