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Named after Georg Cantor (1845–1918), a German mathematician who invented set theory, and Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861–1935), a Swedish mathematician.
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Cantor-Bendixson theorem
Today it means: A theorem which (in a simpler formulation) states that a closed uncountable set in Euclidean n-space is equal to the disjoint union of a perfect set and a countable set. Full definition →