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Georg Cantor considered the well-ordering theorem to be a "fundamental principle of thought". However, it is considered difficult or even impossible to visualize a well-ordering of , the set of all real numbers; such a visualization would have to incorporate the axiom of choice. In 1904, Gyula Konig claimed to have proven that such a well-ordering cannot exist. A few weeks later, Felix Hausdorff

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