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Biography of Georg Cantor (BB^Y-1918) ... Georg Cantor's father, Georg Waldemar Cantor, was a successful merchant, working as a wholesaling agent in St Petersburg, then later as a broker in the St Petersburg Stock Exchange. Georg Waldemar Cantor was born in Denmark and he was a man with a deep love of culture and the arts.
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Georg Cantor (1845-1918) ... Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ... Philip Jourdain and Georg Cantor...
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Georg Cantor is famous for his work in developing set theory. He published his first work in 1874 on set theory. This work was very controversial because it differed radically from the mathematics of that time. Today the idea of sets is widely accepted and used by almost every branch of mathematics.
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Georg Cantor's achievement in mathematics was outstanding. He revolutionized the foundation of mathematics with set theory. Set theory is now considered so fundamental that it seems to border on the obvious but at its introduction it was controversial and revolutionary.
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www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cantorth.htm
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The final problem which Cantor grappled with was the realization that there could be no set containing everything, since, given any set, there is always a larger set -- its set of subsets. Furthermore, he believes that infinity actually exists - it is not just a ... Here are some quotes by Georg Cantor:
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Cantor's highly original views were vigorously opposed by his contemporaries, especially Kronecker. The attacks contributed to the nervous breakdowns he suffered throughout the final 33 years of ... Dauben, J. W. Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
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Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity ... Georg Cantor also wondered about infinity. He was born in Russia in 1845. He wanted to become a violinist like his mother. But his father, a worldly merchant, wouldn't have it. When he was seventeen, his father died, and Cantor went on to finish a doctorate in...
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