Set theory
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Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies sets, which informally are collections of objects.
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- Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. "Later generations," he said in 1908, "will regard set theory as a disease from which one has recovered.
- Morris Kline (1982). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-503085-3.