Which of these mathematicians was born at an earlier date, Georg Cantor or Grigory Margulis?
Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ] ; March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1845  – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He invented set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's method of proof of this theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities". He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware.
Cantor space In mathematics, a Cantor space, named for Georg Cantor, is a topological abstraction of the classical Cantor set: a topological space is a Cantor space if it is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. In set theory, the topological space 2 is called "the" Cantor space. Note that, commonly, 2 is referred to simply as the Cantor set, while the term Cantor space is reserved for the more general construction of "D" for a finite set "D" and a set "S" which might be finite, countable or possibly uncountable.