Impossible Sets

Delve into Bertrand Russell's profoundly simple paradox that undermined Cantor's theory of sets. Then follow the scrambl... (more)

Delve into Bertrand Russell's profoundly simple paradox that undermined Cantor's theory of sets. Then follow the scramble to fix set theory and all of mathematics with a new set of axioms, designed to avoid all paradoxes and keep mathematics consistent - a goal that was partly met by the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. (less)