Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
53 votes
7 answers
8k views

Zorn's lemma: old friend or historical relic?

It is often said that instead of proving a great theorem a mathematician's fondest dream is to prove a great lemma. Something like Kőnig's tree lemma, or Yoneda's lemma, or really anything from this ...
Pace Nielsen's user avatar
  • 18.7k