The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's peer-reviewed entry on set theory, covering Cantor's founding discovery, cardinality, the continuum hypothesis, and set theory's role as a foundation for mathematics.
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PublisherStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
URLhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/
Source Typeacademic reference
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