Georg Cantor

This timeline summarizes the life of Georg Cantor and chronicles some of the major milestones of his life.

1845-03-03 00:00:00

Born

Georg Cantor is born.

1856-01-01 00:00:00

Family Relocation to Frankfurt

1860-03-03 00:00:00

Accepted to Darmstadt Gymnasium

1862-09-01 00:00:00

Cantor Begins University Study

Cantor begins studying at the university level at 17 years of age. He is later accepted to the Polytechnical Institute of Zurich, and soon is able to pursue studies at the University of Berlin. (Aczel 2000)

1867-01-01 00:00:00

Dissertation

Cantor completes his dissertation in number theory at the University of Berlin.

1872-04-13 22:04:17

Cantor Named Extraordinary Professor

Cantor decides to pursue a professorship at the University of Halle, but admits that the groundbreaking research was going on at the University of Berlin.

1874-01-01 00:00:00

Cantor Marries Vally Guttmann

1874-01-01 00:00:00

Cantor Publishes First Set Theory Paper

It was entitled "Über eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen" ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers")

1874-01-01 22:04:17

Friendship of cantor and dedekind

Cantor's period of correspondence with Richard Dedekind.

1879-01-01 00:00:00

Cantor Actively Publishes on Set Theory

His more analysis-based approach would garner skepticism, particularly from the very influential Kronecker.

1879-01-01 07:03:24

Cantor Given Full Professorship

It was a remarkable achievement for a 34-year-old (O'Connor, 1998)

1882-01-01 00:00:00

Friendship of Cantor and Gösta Mittag-Leffler

Mittag-Leffler's influence allows Cantor to be published in Acta Mathematica.

1884-01-01 00:00:00

First Mental Breakdown

Believed to have had a number of influences, including Kronecker and his work with the Continuum Hypothesis.

1896-01-01 00:00:00

Pamphlets on Bacon-Shakespeare Authorship Conspiracy

Following Cantor's falling out with the mathematical community, he began to immerse himself in English literature, and soon began to speak and publish on the Bacon-Shakespeare conspiracy.

1900-01-01 00:00:00

Hilbert's Problems

Hilbert publishes 23 problems to be solved by mathematicians in the twentieth century.

1902-01-01 00:00:00

Konig Attempts Disprove the Continuum Hypothesis

Konig was a very well respected mathematician, and Cantor was devastated by his proof, as well as the fact that it was very readily accepted at the time.

1911-01-01 00:00:00

Cantor Visits Britain

This would begin his correspondence with Bertrand Russell. (Aczel, 2000)

1913-01-01 00:00:00

Cantor Retires

1917-06-01 00:00:00

Cantor Enters Hospital for the Last Time

Cantor would die soon after entering.

1917-06-06 00:00:00

Cantor Dies

C.O.D. - Heart Attack

Georg Cantor

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