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Also Known As Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor
Born March 3, 1845 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died January 6, 1918 (aged 72) • Halle • Germany
Notable Works “Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers” • “Grundlagen einer allgemeinen Mannigfaltigkeitslehre”
Subjects Of Study Cantor’s paradox • Cantor’s theorem • continuum hypothesis • infinity • one-to-one correspondence • set theory • transfinite number

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