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Latest revision as of 03:57, August 22, 2010
The Well-Ordering Theorem was proved by Zermelos in 1904, and it states:
Every set can be well-ordered.
This result surprised mathematicians everywhere. The Well-Ordering Theorem is equivalent of the Axiom of Choice, and no well-ordering relation has ever been explicitly constructed for uncountable sets. Thus, the mathematicians who reject the Axiom of Choice also reject this theorem.