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Proved that algebraic numbers can be enumerated and gave an argument showing that every real interval contains numbers outside any proposed enumeration.
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This records the 1874 paper, not Cantor’s later diagonal argument or the full later development of set theory.
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Georg Cantor
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Cantor: algebraic numbers are countable but the reals are not
Proved that algebraic numbers can be enumerated and gave an argument showing that every real interval contains numbers outside any proposed enumeration.
Scientific scope
This records the 1874 paper, not Cantor’s later diagonal argument or the full later development of set theory.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Georg Cantor
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.