Georg Cantor developed set theory in the late 1800s. He proved that there is no bijection between the natural numbers and the real numbers, showing that some infinities are larger than others. This became known as Cantor's theorem. Cantor also proved the Cantor-Bernstein-Schroeder theorem, which states that if there are injections from set A to B and from B to A, then there is a bijection between A and B, so the sets have the same cardinality. Cantor's work revolutionized mathematics and established set theory as an important field of study.