Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite
numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the
study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the
nondenumerability of the real numbers.
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg,
Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years
until the father's sickly health forced them to move to the more
acceptable environment of Frankfurt, Germany, the place where Georg
would spend the rest of his life.
Georg excelled in mathematics. His father saw this gift and tried to
push his son into the more profitable but less challenging field of
engineering. Georg was not at all happy about this idea but he lacked
the courage to stand up to his father and relented. However, after
several years of training, he became so fed up with the idea that he
mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician.
Finally,......

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