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Georg Cantor, German mathematician

Georg Cantor (1845-1918). Portrait of the German mathematician Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor. Cantor carried out important work on classical analysis, using Fourier series to develop a theory of irrational numbers. He is best known for formulating the theory of sets, upon which modern mathematical analysis is based. His seemingly counter-intuitive proofs included transcendental and infinite numbers, and countable and uncountable sets. He was awarded the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal in 1904. Cantor retired in 1913, dying in poverty during the First World War

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BOB GIBSON (1935- ). American baseball pitcher. Pitching the St. Louis Cardinals to victory over the New York Yankees in the seventh and deciding game of the 1964 World Series, at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri, 15 October 1964

BOB GIBSON (1935- ).
American baseball pitcher. Pitching the St. Louis Cardinals to victory over the New York Yankees in the seventh and deciding game of the 1964 World Series, at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri, 15 October 1964

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Cardinal Wolsey, c1500s, (1890). Creator: Unknown

Cardinal Wolsey, c1500s, (1890). Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530), Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, bishop, statesman and cardinal of the Catholic Church during the reign of Henry VIII. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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