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However, he was born in Copenhagen, of Jewish parents, of the Portuguese Jewish community there.

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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (3 March 1845 – 6 January 1918) was a Russian-born German mathematician and philosopher of Danish and Austrian descent, most famous as the creator of set theory, and of Cantor's theorem which implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities."

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Richard Dedekind Giordano Bruno Henri Poincaré George Ballard Mathews Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

What I declare and believe to have demonstrated in this work as well as in earlier papers is that following the finite there is a transfinite (transfinitum)--which might also be called supra-finite (suprafinitum), that is, there is an unlimited ascending ladder of modes, which in its nature is not finite but infinite, but which can be determined as can the finite by determinate, well-defined and distinguishable numbers.

In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

However, he was born in Copenhagen, of Jewish parents, of the Portuguese Jewish community there. - Georg Cantor

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