Georg cantor

The primary education of cantor was trust in a

particular teacher, then going to the elementary
school of San PetersBurg.
He entered in the university on 1862, in Zrich. But
the next year cause of the death of his father, step to
the university of Berln and there specialised in
mathemathics, philoshophy and chemistery.
His early work with Joseph Fourier series led him to
develop a theory of irrational numbers and in 1874
published his first work on set theory.
His
teacher
Kronecker
considered
him
a
mathematical
madness.
Cantor found that those do not always have the same
size, or the same cardinal: for example, the set of
rational is enumerable, ie, the same size as the set
of natural, while the real is not : there are, therefore,
several infinities, one larger than the other.
He suffered from depression and was hospitalized
several times in psychiatric hospitals.
He began to equate the concept of absolute infinity
(which is not conceivable by the human mind) with
God, and wrote religious articles on the subject.