Georg Cantor
1845 – 1918 · Russia · Mathematics
Proved there are different sizes of infinity.
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- Kurt Gödel
1906 – 1978 · Mathematics, Philosophy
Set theory and the continuum problem are the terrain of Gödel's consistency results.
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