Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (/ˈkæntɔːr/ KAN-tor; German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɛʁdinant ˈluːtvɪç ˈfiːlɪp ˈkantoːɐ̯]; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1845 –...

infinite sets is treated by the theory of cardinal numbers, which Cantor began. Georg Cantor published this proof in 1891,: 20–  but it was not his first proof...

Schröder. It is also known as the Cantor–Bernstein theorem or Cantor–Schröder–Bernstein theorem, after Georg Cantor, who first published it (albeit without...

set is said to be strictly larger or strictly smaller than the other. Georg Cantor, the originator of the concept, defined cardinality as "the general concept...

Smith and mentioned by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883. Through consideration of this set, Cantor and others helped lay the foundations of modern...

is an extension of the idea of infinity proposed by mathematician Georg Cantor. Cantor linked the absolute infinite with God,: 175 : 556  and believed that...

Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918) March 3 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918) March 4 – Henry Clay Taylor, American...

{\displaystyle \beth _{1}=\aleph _{1}} . The continuum hypothesis was advanced by Georg Cantor in 1878, and establishing its truth or falsehood is the first of Hilbert's...

Cantor's first set theory article contains Georg Cantor's first theorems of transfinite set theory, which studies infinite sets and their properties....

mathematics, a Cantor space, named for Georg Cantor, is a topological abstraction of the classical Cantor set: a topological space is a Cantor space if it...

positive measure. The Smith–Volterra–Cantor set is named after the mathematicians Henry Smith, Vito Volterra and Georg Cantor. In an 1875 paper, Smith discussed...

none of these operations are commutative. Ordinals were introduced by Georg Cantor in 1883 to accommodate infinite sequences and classify derived sets,...

points may be located. The mathematical study of infinite sets began with Georg Cantor (1845–1918). This provided some counterintuitive facts and paradoxes...

the Cantor staircase function, and the Cantor–Lebesgue function. Georg Cantor (1884) introduced the Cantor function and mentioned that Scheeffer pointed...

was introduced into mathematics near the end of the 19th century by Georg Cantor with his theory of infinite sets, and was later formalized into Zermelo–Fraenkel...

denoted by S ′ . {\displaystyle S'.} The concept was first introduced by Georg Cantor in 1872 and he developed set theory in large part to study derived sets...

(or size) of infinite sets. They were introduced by the mathematician Georg Cantor and are named after the symbol he used to denote them, the Hebrew letter...

ordering of infinite sets. The term transfinite was coined in 1895 by Georg Cantor, who wished to avoid some of the implications of the word infinite in...

a naive set theory. It was created at the end of the 19th century by Georg Cantor as part of his study of infinite sets and developed as a formal but inconsistent...

and, if so, how this could be done. At the end of the 19th century, Georg Cantor enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying infinite sets...

other academics at the University of Göttingen. At the end of the 1890s, Georg Cantor – considered the founder of modern set theory – had already realized...

finite is said to be countably infinite. The concept is attributed to Georg Cantor, who proved the existence of uncountable sets, that is, sets that are...

in 1890 in Bremen with the set theorist Georg Cantor as first president. Founding members included Georg Cantor, Felix Klein, Walther von Dyck, David Hilbert...

infinite sets, the behavior is more complex. A fundamental theorem due to Georg Cantor shows that it is possible for two infinite sets to have different cardinalities...

The Cantor Medal of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung is named in honor of Georg Cantor, the first president of the society. It is awarded at most...

details. The theorem is named for Georg Cantor, who first stated and proved it at the end of the 19th century. Cantor's theorem had immediate and important...

mathematics), building on earlier work by Frege, Richard Dedekind, and Georg Cantor. Gödel's discoveries in the foundations of mathematics led to the proof...

Teubner. 1930. "Georg Cantor". In Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 39, 189–266. Also appeared separately as Georg Cantor Leipzig: B. G...

the German mathematicians Richard Dedekind and Georg Cantor in the 1870s. In particular, Georg Cantor is commonly considered the founder of set theory...

mathematical logic, the theory of infinite sets was first developed by Georg Cantor. Although this work has become a thoroughly standard fixture of classical...