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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( / ˈkæntɔːr / KAN-tor, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɛʁdinant ˈluːtvɪç ˈfiːlɪp ˈkantoːɐ̯]; 3 March [ O.S. 19 February] 1845 – 6 January 1918 [1]) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
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Georg Cantor (born March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia—died January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician who founded set theory and introduced the mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from one another.
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Georg Cantor was a Russian-born mathematician who can be considered as the founder of set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series.
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Georg Cantor was an outstanding mathematician and violinist born in Saint Petersburg who founded Set Theory.
Mar 29, 2019 · Georg Cantor was the first to fully address such an abstract concept, and he did it by developing set theory, which led him to the surprising conclusion that there are infinities of different sizes. Faced with the rejection of his counterintuitive ideas, Cantor doubted himself and suffered successive nervous breakdowns, until dying interned in ...
The early development of logic after 1900 was based on the late 19th-century work of Gottlob Frege, Giuseppe Peano, and Georg Cantor, among others. Different lines of research were unified by a general effort to use symbolic (sometimes called mathematical, or formal) techniques.
Jun 8, 2018 · Cantor, Georg (b. St. Petersburg, Russia, 3 March 1845; d. Halle, Germany, 6 January 1918), mathematics, set theory. Cantor’s father, Georg Waldemar Cantor, was a successful and cosmopolitan merchant. His extant letters to his son attest to a cheerfulness of spirit and deep appreciation of art and religion.
