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For questions about the mathematical branch that is based on the study of sets, i.e. collections of objects.
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How did ZFC become the standard foundations of mathematics?
I would like to hear about the historical and technical reasons for why Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of Choice became the dominant standard for the foundations of mathematics.
The system …
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Cantor, set theory and foundations
Did Georg Cantor ever think that set theory could serve as a foundational system for all of mathematics?
He died in 1918, but Zermelo set theory (just Z, no ZF or ZFC yet) was described in a paper by …
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