Discourse on Paradoxes with emphasis on Russell’s Paradox
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This paper attempts to further the understanding of paradoxes by explaining their past and present. The history of the major paradoxes is traced and special emphasis is made of Russell’s paradox and Set theory. Consequences of the paradox in question with relation to general mathematical science are also mentioned.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007