20th June
On this day in 1877, Georg Cantor wrote to to Dedekind, announcing a proof that the points inside a square are in one-to-one correspondence with those on a line segment. Three years earlier, Cantor had intimated that this was clearly impossible.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.