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Set theory, founded by Georg Cantor in the second half of the 19th century, has profoundly transformed mathematics. Modern day mathematics is unthinkable without the concept of a set, or as David Hilbert put it: “Nobody will drive us from the paradise (of set theory) that Cantor has created for us.”
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Sets, functions, and the continuum hypothesis. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_19
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