Cantor (disambiguation)

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A cantor is a person who leads people in singing or sometimes in prayer.

Cantor may also refer to:

Music

• Cantor (Christianity), the chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church
• Hazzan, a Jewish musician trained in the vocal arts who leads the congregation in songful prayer
• Cantor (music software), a vocal singing synthesizer software

People

• Cantor (surname)
  • Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician
    • Cantor cube
    • Cantor distribution
    • Cantor function
    • Cantor medal, German mathematics prize named after Georg Cantor
    • Cantor set
    • Cantor space
    • Cantor's theorem (disambiguation)
  • Theodore Cantor (1809–1860), Danish zoologist and botanist after whom several species are named
  • David G. Cantor (1935–2012), American mathematician
    • Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm

Places

• Cantor, New Brunswick, U.S.

Science and technology

• 16246 Cantor, asteroid
• Cantor (crater), a lunar crater
• Cantor (mathematics software), a free software mathematics application for scientific statistics and analysis
• Cantor, a trade name for the drug Minaprine

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Cantor
• All pages with titles containing Cantor
• Precentor, a person who helps facilitate worship