Reading that little lot makes a moderately confident cantor feel thoroughly inadequate.
In that year he matriculated at the university, and took lessons in composition from Theodor Weinlig, cantor at the Thomasschule.
Cantor and Dedekind were of the greatest importance in the progress of the subject.
Cantor's Vorlesungen fiber Geschichte der Mathematik is the standard authority.
Moritz Cantor suspects the influence of Diophantine methods, more particularly in the Hindu solutions of indeterminate equations, where certain technical terms are, in all probability, of Greek origin.