Mathematician:Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

Mathematician
Georg Cantor is the creator of set theory.

He established the importance of correspondence between sets and helped to define the concepts of infinity and well-ordered sets.

He is also famous for stating and proving Cantor's Theorem.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 3 March 1845, St Petersburg, Russia
 * Died: 6 Jan 1918, Halle, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Cantor Set
 * Cantor Space
 * Cantor Normal Form


 * Cantor-Bendixson Derivative (with )
 * Cantor-Bendixson Theorem (with )
 * Smith-Volterra-Cantor Set (with and )


 * Cantor's Diagonal Argument
 * Cantor's Theorem
 * Heine-Cantor Theorem (with
 * Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem (with and ) (also known as Bernstein-Schröder Theorem)


 * Cantor-Dedekind Hypothesis (with )


 * Real Numbers are Uncountable

Publications

 * 1867: De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis
 * 1874: Über eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen (On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers)
 * 1883: Grundlagen einer allgemeinen Mannigfaltigkeitslehre (Foundations of a General Theory of Aggregates)
 * 1915: (translated by  from Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre)
 * 1915: (translated by  from Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre)
 * 1915: (translated by  from Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre)