Cantor, Moritz

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Historien allemand des mathématiques, né à Mannheim en 1829, dans une famille venue du Portugal via la Hollande. Il étudia à Heidelberg à partir de 1848 puis à Göttingen, obtint son doctorat à Heidelberg en 1851, et y devint privat-docent en 1853, professeur assistant en 1863 puis professeur honoraire en 1877. Son œuvre majeure, les Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, parue en trois volumes de 1880 à 1898, retrace le développement des mathématiques jusqu'à l'époque de Lagrange.

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Sources & resources

jewishencyclopedia.com ↗
edited by M. Curtze and S. Günther, and dedicated to Moritz Cantor on the seventieth anniversary of his birthday, Aug. 23, 1899 (1899)
Supplement to vol. xliv. of the Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik entitled Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik
The carefully compiled catalogue contains, besides references to original works by Cantor, a complete list of his historical and critical reviews to date