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Similarly, Max Zorn used to ask people whether they recalled what Zorn's Lemma was introduced as a lemma to. (I haven't a clue, and I doubt most of them did eit
by CurtMonash 9y ago
Similarly, Max Zorn used to ask people whether they recalled what Zorn's Lemma was introduced as a lemma to. (I haven't a clue, and I doubt most of them did either.)
- kmill 9y agoPage 82 of https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086078901362 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086078... has some information. Zorn introduced a "maximal principle" as an axiom. It appears Tukey called a generalization of it Zorn's Lemma for unknown reasons, though there is some version of the statement that really is proved, but apparently by Chevalley (a fact Zorn knew).