set theory
noun
: a branch of mathematics or of symbolic logic that deals with the nature and relations of sets
set theoretic
adjective
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But the math of set theory, which so often dwells in a world beyond proof, tends to look more like physics or biology, as Aguilera put it.
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Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
But the viewer doesn’t need to know a thing about set theory to find her organization of lines and angles beautiful.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
An Alternative Mathematics Some experts were therefore determined to reject the axiom of choice and instead work only with the eight fundamental truths of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
But the viewer doesn’t need to know a thing about set theory to find her organization of lines and angles beautiful.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
An Alternative Mathematics Some experts were therefore determined to reject the axiom of choice and instead work only with the eight fundamental truths of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Set theory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20theory. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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