Cantor set

English thumb|right|construction of the Cantor set Etymology en Georg Cantor German mathematician = 1845 1918. Noun en analysis topology en A subset of an interval formed by recursively removing an interval in the middle of every connected component of the set. en Gerald Folland Gerald B. Folland Real Analysis : Modern Techniques and Their Applications 2nd New York John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999 §1.5 38 978-0-471-31716-6 803988029     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. Synonyms en Cantor dust Translations subset of an interval German: de Cantor-Menge f Swedish: sv cantormängd c en Infinity Set theory Fractals