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| S May 8, 2015 at 12:01 | history | suggested | Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added link to the paper - dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01886630
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 19:47 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | The most detailed discussion I know of in English for Cantor's trigonometric series papers is Dauben's The trigonometric background to Georg Cantor's theory of sets. Regarding Cantor extending the countability argument from the rationals to the algebraic numbers, this originated from Dedekind in letters to Cantor. English translations of the relevant letters are on pp. 844-850 of Ewald's book (reference [7] here). See also pp. 177-186 of Ferreirós' 1999 book and his 1993 Historia Math. paper. | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 21:56 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Besides the references you suggest, the standard place to read about this is the preface by Jourdain to his translation of Cantor's Math. Annalen memoirs, Contributions to the founding of the theory of transfinite numbers. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 17:55 | vote | accept | Ben | ||
| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | quid | I added some references. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:53 | history | edited | quid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | Ali Caglayan | Do you have an references for the first point? | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 10:43 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 29, 2014 at 10:41 | history | answered | quid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |