Introduced by credits the mathematicians whose work actually created a concept. Wikipedia notes "the modern study of set theory was initiated by the German mathematicians Richard Dedekind and Georg Cantor in the 1870s," with Cantor "commonly considered the founder of set theory." This dimension traces a concept back to the person or people who first built it.
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Wikipedia: Axiom
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An axiom, postulate, or assumption, is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.
Wikipedia: Cantor's Diagonal Argument
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Cantor's diagonal argument (among various similar names) is a mathematical proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers
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