Arithmos X - Georg Cantor

From: Saturday, Spetember 27, 2003, 2:00 pm
To: Sunday, September 28, at 12:30.
Location: Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT
Contact: Ed Sandifer, esandifer@earthlink.net
Reading List:
1. Cantor, "On a property of the set of real algebraic numbers," in volume 2, pp. 839-843 of From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics, edited by William Ewald, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
2. The Cantor-Dedekind correspondence for 1873, a few pages later in the same volume.
3. Cantor, "Grundlagen einwer Allgemeinen Mannigfaltigkeitslehre," in Calinger, reading 112, pp. 637-641.
Here are some additional resources:
- The minutes and reading list of Oresme's meeting of September 2001, also on the topic of Cantor.
- Fred Rickey's bibliography of primary & secondary literature.
Schedule:
- Saturday, 12:00, optional lunch for early arrivers
- Saturday, 2:00 pm, afternoon session begins
- Saturday, 6:30 pm, dinner
- Sunday, early, optional fun run
- Sunday, 9:00 am, morning session begins
- Sunday, 12:30, farewells and optional lunch

Last modified: October 3, 2003.