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.

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Label	Occurrences
Georg Cantor canonical	20
Cantor	1
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German person ⓘ academic ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
academicAdvisor	Karl Weierstrass ⓘ Leopold Kronecker ⓘ
citizenship	Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
countryOfCitizenship	Germany ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1845-03-03 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1918-01-06 ⓘ
educatedAt	Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ surface form: University of Berlin University of Zurich ⓘ
employer	University of Halle ⓘ surface form: University of Halle-Wittenberg
familyName	Georg Cantor self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cantor
fieldOfWork	mathematical logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ set theory ⓘ
fullName	Georg Cantor self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ St. Petersburg ⓘ surface form: Saint Petersburg
placeOfDeath	German Empire ⓘ Halle (Saale) ⓘ surface form: Halle an der Saale
religion	Lutheranism ⓘ
spouse	Valentina Olszewska ⓘ

Referenced by (22)

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Humboldt University of Berlin → hasNotableAlumni → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor’s paradox → namedAfter → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Karl Weierstrass → hasStudent → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Georg Cantor → fullName → Georg Cantor self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

Georg Cantor → familyName → Georg Cantor self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cantor

Über die Darstellbarkeit einer Funktion durch eine trigonometrische Reihe → influenced → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Felix Bernstein → studentOf → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Felix Bernstein → doctoralAdvisor → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Felix Bernstein → influencedBy → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor’s theorem → namedAfter → Georg Cantor ⓘ

set theory → developedBy → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Giuseppe Peano → influencedBy → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Paul du Bois-Reymond → influenced → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor set → namedAfter → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor–Bernstein–Schröder theorem → namedAfter → Georg Cantor ⓘ

continuum hypothesis → proposedBy → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Valentina Olszewska → spouseOf → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Western mathematics → hasKeyFigure → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg → hasNotableAlumnus → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor Medal → namedAfter → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Cantor Medal → associatedWith → Georg Cantor ⓘ

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity → notableFigureDiscussed → Georg Cantor ⓘ