zorn's lemma

Zorn's lemma

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noun zorn's lemma a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element. 1

before 1945

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1945-50; after Max August Zorn (born 1906), German mathematician

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