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    In set theory, an infinite set is a set that is not a finite set. Infinite sets may be countable or uncountable. The set of natural numbers (whose existence...
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  • uncountable sets, that is, sets that are not countable; for example the set of the real numbers. Although the terms "countable" and "countably infinite" as defined...
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  • In mathematics, a set A is Dedekind-infinite (named after the German mathematician Richard Dedekind) if some proper subset B of A is equinumerous to A...
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    other sets. A set may have a finite number of elements or be an infinite set. There is a unique set with no elements, called the empty set; a set with...
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    B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}. A more elaborate example (involving two infinite sets) is: A = {x is an even integer larger than 1} B = {x is an odd integer...
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  • (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It is demonstrated...
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    Infinity (redirect from The Infinite)
    infinity by studying infinite sets and infinite numbers, showing that they can be of various sizes. For example, if a line is viewed as the set of all of its...
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  • mathematics, an uncountable set, informally, is an infinite set that contains too many elements to be countable. The uncountability of a set is closely related...
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    set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, nth, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite...
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  • that the natural numbers form a set (necessarily infinite). A great discovery of Cantor is that, if one accept infinite sets, then there are different sizes...
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  • number) of the set. A set that is not a finite set is called an infinite set. For example, the set of all positive integers is infinite: { 1 , 2 , 3 ,...
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  • of at least one infinite set, namely a set containing the natural numbers. It was first published by Ernst Zermelo as part of his set theory in 1908....
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    particularly in set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets that can be well-ordered...
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  • quantify the size of infinite sets, and the transfinite ordinals, which are ordinal numbers used to provide an ordering of infinite sets. The term transfinite...
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    Cardinality (redirect from Set modulus)
    Beginning in the late 19th century, this concept was generalized to infinite sets, which allows one to distinguish between different types of infinity...
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    countably infinite set is uncountably infinite. The power set of the set of natural numbers can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with the set of real...
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    a set. In the case of a finite set, its cardinal number, or cardinality is therefore a natural number. For dealing with the case of infinite sets, the...
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  • cardinality of set B and set C are both 3. An infinite set is a set with an infinite number of elements, while a finite set is a set with a finite number...
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  • Cantor ternary set contains all points in the interval [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle [0,1]} that are not deleted at any step in this infinite process. The same...
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    one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are more numerous than...
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  • Look up infinite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Infinite may refer to: Infinite set, a set that is not a finite set Infinity, an abstract concept...
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    The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type...
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  • contradictions within modern axiomatic set theory. Set theory as conceived by Georg Cantor assumes the existence of infinite sets. As this assumption cannot be...
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    Cantor's diagonal argument (category Set theory)
    are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers – informally, that there are sets which...
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    ! {\displaystyle n!} . Although symmetric groups can be defined on infinite sets, this article focuses on the finite symmetric groups: their applications...
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  • finite and infinite sets, and allows one to state whether two sets have the same size even if they are infinite. Georg Cantor, the inventor of set theory...
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  • denumerably infinite. This is not, in fact, a theorem of mathematics. But, according to Hartman, people are capable of a denumerably infinite set of predicates...
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  • Well-order (redirect from Well-ordered set)
    (see § Natural numbers, below, for an example). For a countably infinite set, the set of possible order types is uncountable. The standard ordering ≤...
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  • to systematically study infinite sets. In particular, he introduced cardinal numbers that measure the size of infinite sets, and ordinal numbers that...
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    straightforward application is to finite sets (such as pigeons and boxes), it is also used with infinite sets that cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence...
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