Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Wikipedia
Born: March 3, 1845, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: January 6, 1918 (age 72 years), Halle (Saale), Germany
Education: Humboldt University of Berlin (1867), ETH Zürich, and University of Göttingen
Parents: Maria Anna Böhm and Georg Waldemar Cantor
Award: Sylvester Medal (1904)
Children: Rudolph Cantor and Erich Cantor
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Georg Cantor, (born March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Jan. 6, 1918, Halle, Ger.), German mathematician, founder of set theory.
Mathematician Georg Cantor was the first person to take a systematic look at infinity. We intuitively think of infinity as, well, "really big." But Cantor ...