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Elementary Observations

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 1876)

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Experience gained presenting the contents of this paper before a learned audience discloses that the wily, attentive listener will expend more energy searching for the possible hidden presence of the axiom of choice in the proofs than he will in following the positive, constructive aspects of these proofs.

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Herrlich, H. (2006). Elementary Observations. In: Axiom of Choice. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34268-0_3

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