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zermelo's axiom

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Zer⋅me⋅lo's ax⋅iom

[tser-muh-lohz]
–noun Mathematics.
axiom of choice.

Origin:
after Ernst E.F. Zermelo (1871–1953), German mathematician

axiom of choice

–noun Mathematics.
the axiom of set theory that given any collection of disjoint sets, a set can be so constructed that it contains one element from each of the given sets.
Also called Zermelo's axiom; especially British, multiplicative axiom.
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