Moritz Cantor
Moritz Cantor · Science & Medicine
Leading historian of mathematics
1829, Mannheim, Germany — 1920, Heidelberg, Germany
Germany
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Moritz Cantor was a German historian of mathematics whose four-volume Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik was the leading comprehensive history of the subject in its time and long remained a standard reference. He helped establish the history of mathematics as a scholarly discipline. He was Jewish.
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Leading historian of mathematics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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