Monday, March 26, 2018

How can 1d be the same as 2d??   They said Cantor didn't believe it either when he 1st saw it............set theory............the man from the Baltic Sea............St. Petersburg.......


Georg Cantor - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a German mathematician. He invented set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real ...
Fields‎: ‎Mathematics
Awards‎: ‎Sylvester Medal‎ (1904)
Known for‎: ‎Set theory
Thesis‎: ‎De aequationibus secundi gradus inde...

Cantor - 19th Century Mathematics - The Story of Mathematics

www.storyofmathematics.com/19th_cantor.html
The German Georg Cantor was an outstanding violinist, but an even more outstanding mathematician. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he lived until he was eleven. Thereafter, the family moved to Germany, and Cantor received his remaining education at Darmstradt, Zürich, Berlin and (almost inevitably) ...

Cantor biography

www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cantor.html
Georg Cantor's father, Georg Waldemar Cantor, was a successful merchant, working as a wholesaling agent in St Petersburg, then later as a broker in the St Petersburg Stock Exchange. Georg Waldemar Cantor was born in Denmark and he was a man with a deep love of culture and the arts. Georg's mother, Maria Anna ...

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