Roberto Rigolin F Lopes

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This Axiom of Choice asserts that given any collection of distinct, non-empty sets, if you need to (as Cantor did), you can always choose an element from each. It doesn’t tell you how to do this, but you can imagine a jackdaw plucking a shiny trinket from each of a possibly infinite row of boxes.
The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
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