Concept

Cardinality

Overview

measure of the “number of elements of the set”, either as a cardinal number or as the equivalence class of sets admitting bijections to this set

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Formal language
• First-order logic
• Felix Hausdorff
• Independence (mathematical logic)
• Anaximander
• Finite set
• Addison-Wesley
• Georg Cantor
• Harvard University Press
• Princeton University Press
• Giuseppe Peano
• Skolem's paradox
• Springer Science+Business Media
• Infinite set
• Parity (mathematics)
• Interpretation (logic)
• Integer
• Forcing (mathematics)
• Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
• John von Neumann
• Dana Scott
• Kurt Gödel
• Ernst Zermelo
• University of St Andrews

Opposing perspectives

• Oxford English Dictionary

Place in the tradition

Part of First-order logic.

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