Re: On the cardinal of the Cantor set

From: Dave Seaman (dseaman_at_no.such.host)
Date: 03/05/05


Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:26:21 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:01:53 +0000, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> Dave Seaman wrote:

> No, my question is: who was the first person who used expressing real
> numbers in the bases 2 and 3 in order to prove that the Cantor set has
> the same cardinal as the set of real numbers.

>From what I have seen, Cantor considered perfect aggregates, but he did
not give any special attention to the middle-thirds version of that set.

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