Georg Cantor

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German person academic human mathematician

Georg Cantor was a pioneering German mathematician best known for founding set theory and introducing the concept of different sizes of infinity.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German person → academic → human → mathematician →
academicAdvisor	Karl Weierstrass → Leopold Kronecker →
citizenship	Kingdom of Prussia →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany →
dateOfBirth	1845-03-03 →
dateOfDeath	1918-01-06 →
educatedAt	University of Berlin NERFINISHED → University of Zurich →
employer	University of Halle-Wittenberg NERFINISHED →
familyName	Cantor →
fieldOfWork	mathematical logic → mathematics → number theory → set theory →
fullName	Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor →
givenName	Georg →
influenced	Bertrand Russell → David Hilbert → Ernst Zermelo → Kurt Gödel → modern set theory →
knownFor	Cantor set → Cantor–Bernstein–Schröder theorem → Cantor’s theorem → cardinal numbers → concept of different sizes of infinity → continuum hypothesis → diagonal argument → founding set theory → ordinal numbers → proof of uncountability of the real numbers → theory of transfinite numbers →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
movement	foundations of mathematics →
notableIdea	hierarchy of infinities → transfinite induction →
numberOfChildren	6 →
occupation	university professor →
placeOfBirth	Russian Empire → Saint Petersburg →
placeOfDeath	German Empire → Halle an der Saale →
religion	Lutheranism →
spouse	Valentina Olszewska →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Felix Bernstein → Giuseppe Peano →	influencedBy
Cantor’s paradox → Cantor’s theorem →	namedAfter
set theory →	developedBy
Felix Bernstein →	doctoralAdvisor
Georg Cantor ("Cantor") →	familyName
Georg Cantor ("Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor") →	fullName
Humboldt University of Berlin →	hasNotableAlumni
Karl Weierstrass →	hasStudent
Über die Darstellbarkeit einer Funktion durch eine trigonometrische Reihe →	influenced
Felix Bernstein →	studentOf