Zorn’s lemma
Zorn’s lemma is a proposition of set theory that is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice and the Well ordering principle over ZF.1
If
is a partially ordered set in which every chain has an upper bound, then has a maximal element. zfc
Zorn’s lemma may be weakened to the Ultrafilter lemma.
Footnotes
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2008. Advanced Linear Algebra, p. 12 ↩