MATHEMATICIAN

Georg Cantor

1845 - 1918

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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( KAN-tor; German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɛʁdinant ˈluːtvɪç ˈfiːlɪp ˈkantoːɐ̯]; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1845 – 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of 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 numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers. Cantor's method of proof of this theorem implies the existence of an infinity of infinities. He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Cantor is the 37th most popular mathematician (down from 33rd in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Russia (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

Georg Cantor is most famous for his work in set theory. He developed the concept of a transfinite set, which is a set that is larger than any natural number.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georg Cantor ranks 37 out of 1,004. Before him are François Viète, Kurt Gödel, Luca Pacioli, Niels Henrik Abel, Brahmagupta, and Pope Sylvester II. After him are Apollonius of Perga, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, John Napier, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Johann Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Georg Cantor ranks 5. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Alexander III of Russia, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Gabriel Lippmann. After him are Gabriel Fauré, George I of Greece, Élie Metchnikoff, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Amadeo I of Spain, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Spitteler. Among people deceased in 1918, Georg Cantor ranks 12. Before him are Gavrilo Princip, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Egon Schiele, Guillaume Apollinaire, Mehmed V, and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Manfred von Richthofen, Frederick Trump, Georg Simmel, and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georg Cantor ranks 58 out of 3,761. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Wilhelm Wien (1864), and Alexander Kerensky (1881). After him are Rurik (830), Peter Kropotkin (1842), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), Otto Wallach (1847), Yaroslav the Wise (978), and Andrei Tarkovsky (1932).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Georg Cantor ranks 2. Before him are David Hilbert (1862). After him are Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Christian Goldbach (1690), Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943).

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