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Lived: 1845 - 1918
Created set theory - 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 numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers.
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| Georg Cantor |
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| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Alfred North Whitehead |
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Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was originally regarded as so counter-intuitive – even shocking – that it encountered resistance. Cantor's method of proof implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities".
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