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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, 66045, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Judith Roitman

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This paper is freely adapted from the author’s talk, of the same title, jointly sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathe-matics and the Mathematical Association of America, in honor of the MAA’s 75th birthday, at the 1990 Summer Joint Mathematics Meetings.

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Roitman, J. The uses of set theory. The Mathematical Intelligencer 14, 63–69 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024144

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