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Mathematics
George Cantor
The purpose of the paper is to develop a concept of the connection between mathematics and society from a historical perspective. Specifically, it will discuss the subject, what George Cantor accomplished for mathematics and what that did for society. George Cantor's set theory changed the way mathematicians of the time looked at their science, and he revolutionized the way the world looks at numbers.
George Cantor was a brilliant mathematician and philosopher who developed the modern mathematical idea of infinity, along with the idea of an infinite set of real numbers, called transfinite sets, or the "set theory." In addition, Cantor found that real numbers were not countable, while algebraic numbers were countable (Breen). Cantor's views were quite controversial when he first developed them in the late 1800s, and some mathematicians today question some of his hypothesis ("Transfinite Number"), however, his work is recognized as some of the most important mathematical thought of our time. Not only did Cantor get other mathematicians thinking about problems that had...
It also stirred up interest in mathematics that had waned during the Victorian era. Even more importantly, his theories spilled over into many other innovations of the day, including the atomistic statistical thermodynamics, stop-motion photography, and even the color-plane type of painting by Gauguin and Bernard (Everdell 46). In addition, Cantor's works also inspired philosophical thought in any number of his contemporaries, because mathematicians like Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein turned to philosophical thought to explain and even try to disprove Cantor's theories. Cantor's set theories inspired others to create, think, prove, and disprove, and so, his work not only created a more understandable and workable form of arithmetic, it created new thought and new art forms that changed society…
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Everdell, William R. The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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