...Lemma
Originally proved by K. Kuratowski (1923) and R.L. Moore (1923); this was rediscovered by M. Zorn in 1935, and credited to him by Bourbaki.
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...infinity)
Later versions would use .
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...cardinality),
Zermelo did not used ordered pairs. He starts with disjoint A and B and considers the set M in consisting of doubletons with exactly one element from each of A and B. Then he looks for R in M which provide a 1-1 correspondence.
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...integers
Zermelo first looked at numbers in later articles.
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...sets.
Fraenkel published similar observations the same year.
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...(ZFC)
For a leisurely treatment, i.e., in the spirit of Zermelo's original paper, see Halmos' Naive Set Theory.
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Stan Burris
Fri Jan 31 13:59:08 EST 1997