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What is Cantor's debt to Dedekind?

A recent article: Joseph Howlett ''The Man Who Stole Infinity'', Quanta Magazine, Feb. 25, 2026 appeared with the abstract:

Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

Will history of math be rewritten or it is just hype?