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On Cantor’s Continuum Problem and Well Ordering: What really happened at the 1904 International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg (2015)

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As a young Privatdozent in Halle, Georg Cantor began to investigate problems involving the uniqueness of trigonometric series espansions, following the lead of his senior colleague, Eduard Heine.

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Authors & Contributors
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor
Aczel, Amir D.
Ausejo Martínez, Elena
Belna, Jean-Pierre
Bergmans, Luc
Błaszczyk, Piotr
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Foundations of Science
History and Philosophy of Logic
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Indiana University
Elsevier
Four Walls Eight Windows
Franz Steiner Verlag
Les Belles Lettres
Concepts
Mathematics
Set theory
Infinity
Science and religion
Infinitesimals
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig
Dedekind, Richard
Hilbert, David
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich
Gödel, Kurt
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Medieval
20th century
Ancient
Modern
Places
Germany
China
Ottoman Empire
Sweden
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