What Is Zorn’s Lemma?
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5 min readApr 23, 2020
The quick and dirty guide to one of the stranger mathematical curiosities.
Motivation!
It’s always worth having motivation for bizarre and abstract mathematical ideas.
As Timothy Gowers, Fields Medalist, puts it in this 2008 article on his blog
If you are building a mathematical object in stages and find that (i) you have not finished even…
