Zorn\'s lemma

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Zorn's lemma

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noun Mathematics.
a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element.

Origin:
1945–50; after Max August Zorn (born 1906), German mathematician
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Zorn's lemma is always a great word to know.
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a relation between two sets in which one element of the second set is assigned to each element of the first set, the operator
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