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    Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (/zɜːrˈmɛloʊ/, German: [tsɛɐ̯ˈmeːlo]; 27 July 1871 – 21 May 1953) was a German logician and mathematician, whose work...
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  • In set theory, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, named after mathematicians Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel, is an axiomatic system that was proposed in...
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  • Zermelo set theory (sometimes denoted by Z-), as set out in a seminal paper in 1908 by Ernst Zermelo, is the ancestor of modern Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory...
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  • named after Ernst Zermelo, a German mathematician and logician, who proved the theorem for the example game of chess in 1913. Zermelo's theorem can be...
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  • of choice (often called AC, see also Axiom of choice § Equivalents). Ernst Zermelo introduced the axiom of choice as an "unobjectionable logical principle"...
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  • discovered independently in 1899 by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo. However, Zermelo did not publish the idea, which remained known only to David...
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  • is named after John von Neumann, although it was first published by Ernst Zermelo in 1930. The rank of a well-founded set is defined inductively as the...
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    particular, Ernst Zermelo provided a construction that is nowadays only of historical interest, and is sometimes referred to as Zermelo ordinals. It...
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  • about the relation between the absolute and God. Georg Cantor (1932). Ernst Zermelo (ed.). Gesammelte Abhandlungen mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts...
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    {\displaystyle i\in I} . The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. In many...
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  • numbers. It was first published by Ernst Zermelo as part of his set theory in 1908. In the formal language of the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms, the axiom is expressed...
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  • axiom of union is one of the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. This axiom was introduced by Ernst Zermelo. Informally, the axiom states that for...
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    equivalent to global choice rather than von Neumann's axiom. In 1930, Ernst Zermelo defined models of set theory satisfying the axiom of limitation of size...
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  • choice) but neither publishes his proof nor tells Cantor about it. Ernst Zermelo discovered Dedekind's proof and in 1908 he publishes his own proof based...
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  • entire structure of mathematics. Mathematicians such as Gottlob Frege, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel, and Thoralf Skolem put much effort into revising...
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    In mathematical optimization, Zermelo's navigation problem, proposed in 1931 by Ernst Zermelo, is a classic optimal control problem that deals with a...
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    of Berlin, where his students included Lipót Fejér, Paul Koebe and Ernst Zermelo. In total, he advised at least 22 Ph. D students. In 1914 Schwarz's...
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    every value of x." He attributes the idea behind the proof to Cantor. Ernst Zermelo has a theorem (which he calls "Cantor's Theorem") that is identical...
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    81–125 Reprinted in: Georg Cantor (1932), Adolf Fraenkel (Lebenslauf); Ernst Zermelo (eds.), Gesammelte Abhandlungen mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts...
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  • Abhandlungen mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts, Georg Cantor, ed. Ernst Zermelo, with biography by Adolf Fraenkel; orig. pub. Berlin: Verlag von Julius...
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  • who presented it in 1952, although it had already been studied by Ernst Zermelo in the 1920s. Applications of the model include the ranking of competitors...
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    Cantor perceived himself as having been publicly humiliated. Although Ernst Zermelo demonstrated less than a day later that König's proof had failed, Cantor...
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    {4, 2, 1, 3} B = {blue, white, red}. This notation was introduced by Ernst Zermelo in 1908. In a set, all that matters is whether each element is in it...
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  • Zermelo's categoricity theorem was proven by Ernst Zermelo in 1930. It states that all models of a certain second-order version of the Zermelo-Fraenkel...
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  • whose single element is 0 {\displaystyle 0} . Within the framework of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the axiom of regularity guarantees that no set is...
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  • , 1 } {\displaystyle \{-1,1\}} . In many formal set theories, such as Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, set builder notation is not part of the formal syntax...
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  • Corporation. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-486-79549-2. Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (2007). Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work. Springer Science & Business Media...
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  • M. Solovay Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin John R. Steel Gaisi Takeuti Alfred Tarski W. Hugh Woodin Ernst Zermelo Association for Symbolic Logic The Cabal...
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    axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulted in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Abraham Adolf Halevi Fraenkel...
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    Cantor Paul Cohen Richard Dedekind Abraham Fraenkel Kurt Gödel Thomas Jech John von Neumann Willard Quine Bertrand Russell Thoralf Skolem Ernst Zermelo...
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