Definition:Set Equivalence/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Set Equivalence
The notion of set equivalence was first introduced by Georg Cantor in $1878$.
The term he used was Mächtigkeit.
Sources
- 1972: Patrick Suppes: Axiomatic Set Theory (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.1$ Set Theory and the Foundations of Mathematics
- 1996: Winfried Just and Martin Weese: Discovering Modern Set Theory. I: The Basics ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction