Georg Cantor, a German mathematician, developed a number of ideas that profoundly influenced 20th-century mathematics. Among other accomplishments, he introduced the idea of a completed infinity, an innovation that earned him recognition as the founder...

The German mathematician Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918) was noted for his theory of sets and his bold analysis of the "actual" infinite, which provoked a critical examination of the foundations of mathematics and eventually...

Cantor thought of himself as artistically inclined. He is said to have voiced regrets that his father did not let him become a violinist. Cantor's family, on his mother's side, included renowned musicians, while his father was a successful businessman....

1845-1918 German Mathematician Georg Cantor is regarded as the founder of set theory. He also introduced the concept of transfinite numbers. This is the idea that there is not just one quantity of "infinity," but many quantities that are...

Cantor, Georg(1845–1918) Georg Cantor, a mathematician who created set theory and a corresponding theory of transfinite numbers, revolutionized mathematics at the end of the nineteenth century with his ideas about the infinite, which were to be...

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3 1845[1] – January 6 1918) was a German mathematician. He is best known as the creator of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one...

"THERE IS A DESIRE today to flatten out '60s radicals, to explain away their politics as having stemmed merely from, say, the urge to become more 'authentic,"' complains Tufts professor Jay Cantor, whose recent novel "Great Neck" (Knopf) explores the political evolution of a...

Su imbatible fama en México latió durante las presentaciones que hizo entre 1975 y 1978 en el Palacio de Bellas Artes y el Teatro de la Ciudad. El poeta, cantor y viajero del mundo Georges Moustaki, cuya carrera brindó melodías célebres a...