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Russell's paradox
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paradox in set theory concerning the set of all sets not containing themselves
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- Instance of
- paradox
- Named after
- Bertrand Russell
- Author
- Ernst Zermelo
- Image
- Russell's paradox.svg
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- studied by
- axiomatic set theory
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
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- discoverer or inventor
- Ernst Zermelo
- time of discovery or invention
- 1901-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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