KnowraCantor's diagonal argumentLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Cantor's diagonal argument, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 4Related 7Compared with 1Georg CantorBroader topic: Cantor used it to prove that real numbers cannot be listed in a sequence.Cantor's theoremBroader topic: Applied to subsets, it produces a subset missing from any proposed list.DiagonalizationBroader topic: It is the classic construction: change the nth digit of the nth listed number.Diagonal argumentBroader topic: Its digit-by-digit construction is the best-known instance of the diagonal method.