A Cantor-halmazt Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831–1889) is felfedezte. Lásd: 128. oldal, lábjegyzet itt: Paul du Bois-Reymond (1880) “Der Beweis des Fundamentalsatzes der Integralrechnung,” Mathematische Annalen, vol. 16, pages 115–128. The “Cantor set” was also discovered in 1881 by Vito Volterra (1860–1940). Lásd: Vito Volterra (1881) “Alcune osservazioni sulle funzioni punteggiate discontinue” [Some observations on point-wise discontinuous functions], Giornale di Matematiche, vol. 19, pages 76–86.