Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor | |
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| Born | Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor 3 Mairch 1845 Saunt Petersburg, Roushie Empire |
| Dee'd | 6 Januar 1918 (aged 72) Halle, Province o Saxony, German Empire |
| Residence | Roushie Empire (1845–56), German Empire (1856–1918) |
| Naitionality | German |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich, Varsity o Berlin |
| Kent for | Set theory |
| Awairds | Sylvester Medal (1904) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Varsity o Halle |
| Thesis | De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis (1867) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Kummer Karl Weierstrass |
| Doctoral students | Alfred Barneck |
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (/ˈkæntɔːr/ KAN-tor; German: [ˈɡeɔʁk ˈfɛʁdinant ˈluːtvɪç ˈfɪlɪp ˈkantɔʁ]; Mairch 3 [A.S. Februar 19] 1845 – Januar 6, 1918[1]) wis a German mathematician. He inventit set theory, which haes acome a fundamental theory in mathematics.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Grattan-Guinness 2000, p. 351
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