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    Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics. Cantor was born at Mannheim. He came from a Sephardi Jewish...
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  • television presenter Max Cantor (1959–1991), American journalist and actor Mircea Cantor (born 1977), Romanian visual artist Moritz Cantor (1829–1920), German...
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    by Arthur Moritz Schönflies blamed Kronecker's persistent criticism and Cantor's inability to confirm his continuum hypothesis" for Cantor's recurring...
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    history of mathematics"), volume 2, German historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor writes: Gleichwohl ist durch [Stefano degli Angeli] vermuthlich ein...
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    Cantor is a lunar impact crater that is located on the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The outer rim of the crater has a distinctly hexagonal...
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    Riemann to retain him in the teaching staff there. Dedekind, Riemann, Moritz Cantor and Alfred Enneper, although they had all already earned their PhDs...
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  • 1708) October 10 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603) According to Moritz Cantor. "Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (A)". Jeff...
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    men of later times". Gauss's heroes were Archimedes and Newton, and Moritz Cantor, who studied under Gauss in the University of Göttingen, reported that...
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    Bell, Eric (1937). Men of Mathematics. New York: Simon and Schuster. Moritz Cantor (1905), "Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...
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    reports credit being given to Marin Mersenne. Beginning with the work of Moritz Cantor and Siegmund Günther, scholars now assign priority to French mathematician...
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    Hazzan (redirect from Cantor (synagogue))
    Amar Rabbi Elazar Cantor Meyer Kanewsky's 1919 performance of the last part of Parshat Haketoret, a passage often read after the morning service in Judaism...
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  • 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877) 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920) 1843 – William Southam...
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  • "Moritz Rosenhaupt: Cantor and composer, 1841–1900". Jewish Music Research Centre.  Singer, Isidore; Frank, Julius (1905). "Rosenhaupt, Moritz". In Singer, Isidore;...
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  • April 8 – John Brashear, American astronomer (born 1840). April 9 – Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (born 1829). April 26 – Srinivasa Ramanujan...
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    French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Moritz Cantor (1876), "Burgi, Jobst", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German),...
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    method of determining longitude. In: Isis. Bd. 22, 1935, S. 469–485. Moritz Cantor (1878), "Gemma-Frisius, Rainer", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in...
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  • Friedrich Moritz Hartogs. 1896 Schröder announces a proof (as a corollary of a theorem by Jevons). 1897 Bernstein, a 19-year-old student in Cantor's Seminar...
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    several other priority disputes. For example, both H. G. Zeuthen and Moritz Cantor, writing at the cusp of the 20th century, dismissed Bernoulli's claims...
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  • the University of Strasbourg and the University of Heidelberg under Moritz Cantor. In 1906 he habilitated with a work about the conic sections of Grégoire...
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    have been much debated. It was first conjectured by the historian Moritz Cantor in 1882. It is known that right angles were laid out accurately in Ancient...
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    on to become renowned mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers: Moritz Cantor, Dedekind, Dirksen, Encke, Gould, Heine, Klinkerfues, Kupffer, Listing...
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    compared to one day every 3,330 years in the Gregorian calendar.: 200  Moritz Cantor considered it the most perfect calendar ever devised.: 101  One of his...
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  • (b. 1837) 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879) 1920 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (b. 1829) 1931 – Kahlil Gibran,...
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    Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften (ed. Moritz Cantor). The Danish version was published 1903 in Copenhagen. Die Mathematik...
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  • Sechenov (died 1905), "the father of Russian physiology". August 23 – Moritz Cantor (died 1920), German historian of mathematics. August 24 - Emanuella...
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  • of 23 unsolved mathematical problems, now termed Hilbert's problems. Moritz Cantor and Vito Volterra gave the two plenary lectures at the start of the...
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  • Moritz, Dear Moritz (German: Moritz, lieber Moritz) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Hark Bohm. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International...
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    Concerning the history of mathematics, he was known as critical to Moritz Cantor. With Soichi Kakeya, he is known for the Eneström-Kakeya theorem which...
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    de Sarasa's popularization of de Saint-Vincent, and concurring with Moritz Cantor, that "the relationship between logarithms and the hyperbola was found...
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    Papyrus (c. 1650–1550 BC); this was first conjectured by historian Moritz Cantor in 1882. It is known that right angles were laid out accurately in ancient...
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