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  2. Axiom of choice - Wikipedia

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    Many theorems provable using choice are of an elegant general character: the cardinalities of any two sets are comparable, every nontrivial ring with unity has a maximal ideal, every vector space has a basis, every connected graph has a spanning tree, and every product of compact spaces is compact, among many others. Frequently, the axiom of ...

  3. Group structure and the axiom of choice - Wikipedia

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    Using the axiom of choice, one can show that for any family S of sets | ⋃S | ≤ | S | × sup { |s| : s ∈ S} (A). [5] Moreover, by Tarski's theorem on choice, another equivalent of the axiom of choice, | X | n = | X | for all finite n (B). Let X be an infinite set and let F denote the set of all finite subsets of X. There is a natural ...

  4. Immersion (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    For infinite dimensional manifolds, this is sometimes taken to be the definition of an immersion. [4] An injectively immersed submanifold that is not an embedding. If M is compact, an injective immersion is an embedding, but if M is not compact then injective immersions need not be embeddings; compare to continuous bijections versus homeomorphisms.

  5. Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory - Wikipedia

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    In set theory, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, named after mathematicians Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel, is an axiomatic system that was proposed in the early twentieth century in order to formulate a theory of sets free of paradoxes such as Russell's paradox.

  6. Tarski's theorem about choice - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Tarski's theorem, proved by Alfred Tarski , states that in ZF the theorem "For every infinite set , there is a bijective map between the sets and " implies the axiom of choice. The opposite direction was already known, thus the theorem and axiom of choice are equivalent.

  7. Choice architecture - Wikipedia

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    Choice Architecture is also similar to the concept of "heuristics," or manipulation that changes outcomes without changing people's underlying preferences, described by political scientist William H. Riker. Choice architecture has been implemented in several public and private policy domains.

  8. Hrushovski construction - Wikipedia

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    In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, the Hrushovski construction generalizes the Fraïssé limit by working with a notion of strong substructure rather than .It can be thought of as a kind of "model-theoretic forcing", where a (usually) stable structure is created, called the generic or rich [1] model.

  9. Submanifold - Wikipedia

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    This image of the open interval (with boundary points identified with the arrow marked ends) is an immersed submanifold. An immersed submanifold of a manifold is the image of an immersion map :; in general this image will not be a submanifold as a subset, and an immersion map need not even be injective (one-to-one) – it can have self-intersections.