born March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia died Jan. 6, 1918, Halle, Ger. German mathematician who founded set theory and introduced the mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from one another.
CANTOR, GEORG (FERDINAND LUDWIG PHILIPP)
Meaning of CANTOR, GEORG (FERDINAND LUDWIG PHILIPP) in English
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