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100 Years of Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice: What was the Problem with It?

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Martin-Löf, P. (2009). 100 Years of Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice: What was the Problem with It?. In: Lindström, S., Palmgren, E., Segerberg, K., Stoltenberg-Hansen, V. (eds) Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism. Synthese Library, vol 341. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8926-8_10

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