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John O'Connor and Edmund Robertson
The History of Set Theory site gives and history of set theory and the major contributor, Georg Cantor.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/relativity/items/detail.cfm?ID=7584">O'Connor, John, and Edmund Robertson. MacTutor History of Mathematics: A History of Set Theory. April 21, 2008.</a>
![]() J. O'Connor and E. Robertson, (1996), WWW Document, (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory/).
![]() J. O'Connor and E. Robertson, MacTutor History of Mathematics: A History of Set Theory (1996), <https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory/>.
![]() O'Connor, J., & Robertson, E. (2008, April 21). MacTutor History of Mathematics: A History of Set Theory. Retrieved May 20, 2025, from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory/
![]() O'Connor, John, and Edmund Robertson. MacTutor History of Mathematics: A History of Set Theory. April 21, 2008. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory/ (accessed 20 May 2025).
![]() O'Connor, John, and Edmund Robertson. MacTutor History of Mathematics: A History of Set Theory. 1996. 21 Apr. 2008. 20 May 2025 <https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory/>.
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