Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zermelo set theory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English

Syllables: zer-melo set the-o-ry
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An early and influential axiomatisation of set theory.

Example Sentences

"1998, Geoffrey Hellman, 8: Beyond Definitionism—But Not Too Far Beyond, Matthias Schirn (editor), 2003, Paperback, The Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 215, The system can be claimed to transcend certain critical limitations of predicative analysis and certain awkwardness of known nominalistic approaches to mathematics at once, and would seem to provide a well-motivated alternative to Zermelo set theory as a framework for scientifically applicable mathematics."
"According to the great logician Alonzo Church, in spite of superficial differences, these two "widely accepted symbolic systems," Zermelo set theory and simple type theory, are "in their currently accepted forms essentially similar" [1939, 69-70]."
"Z is a formal specification language founded on Zermelo set theory."

Etymology

After German mathematician Ernst Zermelo, who introduced the theory in a paper in 1908.

Inflected Forms

Zermelo's set theory (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

ZF ZFC

Questions

What does zermelo set theory mean?: An early and influential axiomatisation of set theory.
Where does zermelo set theory come from?: After German mathematician Ernst Zermelo, who introduced the theory in a paper in 1908.

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