set theory

English

Noun

set theory (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) The mathematical theory of sets.
   • 1984, Robert Goldblatt, Topoi, the categorial analysis of logic, p. 9

     The above argument, known as Russell's Paradox, was discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901. Set theory itself began a few decades earlier with the work of George Cantor.

Synonyms

• sets (informal)

Derived terms

• set-theoretical
• naive set theory
• mereology

Translations

mathematical theory of sets

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集合論 (zh), 集合论 (zh) (jíhélùn)

• Czech: teorie množin f
• Danish: mængdelære
• Dutch: verzamelingenleer (nl) f, m
• Finnish: joukko-oppi (fi)
• French: théorie des ensembles (fr) f
• German: Mengenlehre (de) f, Mengentheorie f
• Greek: θεωρία των συνόλων f (theoría ton synólon)
• Hebrew: תורת הקבוצות‏‎ (he)
• Hungarian: halmazelmélet (hu)
• Icelandic: mengjafræði (is) f
• Ido: ensemblo-teorio
• Irish: teoiric na dtacar f, tacartheoiric f
• Italian: teoria degli insiemi (it) f, insiemistica (it)

• Japanese: 集合論 (shūgōron)
• Korean: 집합론 (ko) (jiphamnon)
• Latin: ratio coniunctorum
• Malay: teori set
• Norwegian: mengdelære (no)
• Polish: teoria mnogości f
• Portuguese: teoria de conjuntos f, teoria dos conjuntos (pt) f.
• Russian: тео́рия мно́жеств (ru) f (teórija mnóžestv)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: теорија скупова f

  Roman: teorija skupova f

• Spanish: teoría de conjuntos f
• Swedish: mängdlära (sv) c
• Tagalog: palatangkasan
• Thai: ทฤษฎีเซต (trít-sà-dee sét)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of set theory