Concept information
Preferred term
Cantor's diagonal argument
Definition
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In set theory, Cantor's diagonal argument, also called the diagonalisation argument, the diagonal slash argument, the anti-diagonal argument, the diagonal method, and Cantor's diagonalization proof, was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a mathematical proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers. Such sets are now known as uncountable sets, and the size of infinite sets is now treated by the theory of cardinal numbers which Cantor began.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- anti-diagonal argument
- Cantor's diagonalization proof
- diagonalisation argument
- diagonal slash argument
In other languages
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French
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argument de la diagonale
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argument diagonal
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-C29NNV79-M
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