Author:Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor
(1845–1918)

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German mathematician and creator of set theory. Largely discredited by his contemporaries for his theory of "transfinite numbers", his conclusions are now considered foundational in several branches of mathematics.

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Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers, translated by Philip E. B. Jourdain (1915) (transcription project)

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