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Around 1880, Georg Cantor, a German mathematician, invented naive set theory. A small fraction of this is sometimes taught to elementary school children. It was soon discovered that this naive set theory was inconsistent because it allowed unbounded set formation, such as the set of all sets. David Hilbert, the world's foremost mathematician from 1900 to 1930, defended Cantor's set theory but suggested a formal axiomatic approach to eliminate the inconsistencies.
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Soare, R.I. (2016). History of Computability. In: Turing Computability. Theory and Applications of Computability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31933-4_17
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