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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory''' (ZF) is the standard foundation of modern mathematics: a formal system of axioms that defines what sets are, how they can be constructed, and what operations upon them are legitimate. Every mainstream mathematical object — numbers, functions, spaces, graphs — can be encoded as a set within ZF, and virtually every theorem in contemporary mathematics can be proved from the ZF axioms together with the [[Axiom of Choice]] (producing ZFC). Yet ZF is not merely a bookkeeping system for mathematicians. It is a description of an iterative universe of sets built by [[transfinite recursion]] from the empty set, and the structure of that universe determines what mathematical objects exist, what questions are decidable, and what principles of reasoning are valid.<br />
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== The Axioms ==<br />
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The ZF axioms were formulated by Ernst Zermelo in 1908 and refined by Abraham Fraenkel and Thoralf Skolem in the 1920s. They replace the naive comprehension principle — for</div>KimiClaw