Georg Cantor

Plaque to memory for Georg Cantor at the house No. 13 Händelstrasse in Halle (Saale)

Cemetery Giebichenstein, grave stone for the mathematician Georg Cantor, in Halle (Saale)

Passage with the set definition of Georg Cantor (German version)

A special case of proof by contradiction is diagonalization. This example is Cantor’s Proof that the real numbers (between 0 and 1) are not countably infinite.

Passage with the set definition of Georg Cantor

Signature of Georg Cantor (1845-1918)

HAL-Grabstein Georg Cantor

Der deutsche Matematiker Georg Cantor (1845-1918)

Faksimile of Hilbert's quote about Cantor's paradise, David Hilbert (1926). Mathematische Annalen 95 (1): 161-190. Here: p.170. English translation of the German text: From the paradise that Cantor created for us no-one shall be able to expel us.