Cantor set

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Etymology

Named after German mathematician Georg Cantor (1845–1918).

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construction of the Cantor set

Cantor set (plural Cantor sets)

  1. (mathematical analysis, topology) A subset of an interval formed by recursively removing an interval in the middle of every connected component of the set.
    • 1999, Gerald B. Folland, Real Analysis : Modern Techniques and Their Applications, 2nd edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, §1.5, page 38:
          The Lebesgue null sets include not only all countable sets but many sets having the cardinality of the continuum. We now present the standard example, the Cantor set, which is also of interest for other reasons.

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