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In the same paper, published in 1874, Cantor showed that the set of all real [[algebraic number]]s is countable, and inferred the existence of [[transcendental]] numbers as a corollary. That corollary had earlier been proved by quite different methods by [[Joseph Liouville]].

===See Also===

* [[Dedekind cut]]