Ernst Zermelo

…1904 by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo in order to prove the “well-ordering theorem” (every set can be given an order relationship, such as less than, under which it is well ordered; i.e., every subset has a first element [see set theory: Axioms for infinite and ordered sets]). Subsequently, it…

(The German mathematician Ernst Zermelo had found the same paradox independently; since it could not be produced in his own axiomatic system of set theory, he did not publish the paradox.)

…in 1908 by German mathematician Ernst Zermelo. From his analysis of the paradoxes described above in the section Cardinality and transfinite numbers, he concluded that they are associated with sets that are “too big,” such as the set of all sets in Cantor’s paradox. Thus, the axioms that Zermelo formulated…

…these problems, the German mathematician Ernest Zermelo undertook to provide an axiomatization of set theory under the influence of the axiomatic approach of Hilbert.

…shown by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo (1871–1951) that every set can be well-ordered, provided one adopts another axiom, the axiom of choice, which says that, for every nonempty family of nonempty sets, there is a set obtainable by picking out exactly one element from each of these sets. This…