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Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993)

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Max August Zorn

German mathematician (1906–1993)

Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, and ordered sets amongst…
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Zorn's lemma

Mathematical proposition equivalent to the axiom of choice

Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory. It states that a partially ordered set containing upper bounds for every chain necessarily contains at least one maximal element.
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June 6

Day of the year

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 208 days remain until the end of the year.
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