Timeline for Famous mathematical quotes
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 12:07 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @Harry: I can't really agree with either statement. Naively, if we could truly "see" a well-ordering of a set of continuum cardinality, then intuitively we should be able to compare it to $\aleph_1$ and "see" whether it is larger. | |
| Nov 30, 2009 at 6:25 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Zorn's Lemma seems the most intuitive out of the three, but well-ordering isn't so counter-intuitive, since all it comes down to is being able to well-order a set with cardinality strictly larger than the natural numbers. Thinking about well-ordering the reals gives a false impression of the difficulty, since the well-ordering only has to do with the underlying set. | |
| Nov 30, 2009 at 1:36 | comment | added | Andrew Critch | Obviously there is something wrong with ZF for proving their equivalence. I blame infinity. | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 21:53 | history | answered | Malik Younsi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |