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| | naive set theory - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com |
 | | is distinguished from axiomatic set theory by the fact that the former regards sets as collections of objects, called the elements or members of the set, whereas the latter regards sets only as that which satisfies certain axioms. |
| | Sets are of great importance in mathematics; in fact, in modern formal treatments, every mathematical object (numbers, relations, functions, etc.) is defined in terms of sets. |
| | Naive set theory was created at the end of the 19th century by Georg Cantor in order to allow mathematicians to work with infinite sets consistently. |
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