Editing Georg Cantor (section)

===Youth and studies===
[[File:Georg Cantor3.jpg|thumb|left|Cantor, around 1870]]
Georg Cantor, born in 1845 in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian Empire<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->, was brought up in that city until the age of eleven. The oldest of six children, he was regarded as an outstanding violinist. His grandfather Franz Böhm (1788–1846) (the violinist [[Joseph Böhm]]'s brother) was a well-known musician and soloist in a Russian imperial orchestra.<ref>[http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_music/924/Бём ru: The musical encyclopedia (Музыкальная энциклопедия)].</ref> Cantor's father had been a member of the [[Saint Petersburg Bourse|Saint Petersburg stock exchange]]; when he became ill, the family moved to Germany in 1856, first to [[Wiesbaden]], then to [[Frankfurt]], seeking milder  winters than those of Saint Petersburg. In 1860, Cantor graduated with distinction from the Realschule in [[Darmstadt]]; his exceptional skills in mathematics, [[trigonometry]] in particular, were noted. In August 1862, he then graduated from the "Höhere Gewerbeschule Darmstadt", now the [[Technische Universität Darmstadt]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Cantor.html|title=Georg Cantor (1845-1918)|website= www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date= 2019-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title= Georg Cantor 1845-1918|publisher= Birkhauser|year= 1985|isbn= 978-3764317706}}</ref> In 1862 Cantor entered the [[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Polytechnic]] in Zurich. After receiving a substantial inheritance upon his father's death in June 1863,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cantor.html|title=Cantor biography|website=www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2017-10-06}}</ref> Cantor transferred to the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|University of Berlin]], attending lectures by [[Leopold Kronecker]], [[Karl Weierstrass]] and [[Ernst Kummer]]. He spent the summer of 1866 at the [[University of Göttingen]], then and later a center for mathematical research. Cantor was a good student, and he received his doctoral degree in 1867.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Math and mathematicians: the history of math discoveries around the world|last1= Bruno|first1= Leonard C.|year= 1999|publisher= U X L|last2= Baker|first2= Lawrence W.|isbn= 978-0787638139 |location=Detroit, Mich.|page=[https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/54 54]|oclc= 41497065|url=https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/54}}</ref>