Events Tagged: "real numbers"

4 events with tag "real numbers"

1846 ID: 861
Joseph Liouville develops theory of transcendental numbers - classification of real numbers
ID: 861
1862 ID: 938
Richard Dedekind develops rigorous construction of real numbers - foundation for continuous quantities
ID: 938
1877 ID: 1006
Cantor proves real numbers are uncountably infinite - multiple sizes of infinity exist
ID: 1006
1891 ID: 1104
Cantor's diagonal argument proves uncountability of real numbers - some infinities larger than others
ID: 1104