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Full Idea
Burali-Forti didn't discover any paradoxes, though his work suggested a paradox to Russell.
Gist of Idea
Russell discovered the paradox suggested by Burali-Forti's work
Source
report of Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903]) by Shaughan Lavine - Understanding the Infinite I
Book Ref
Lavine,Shaughan: 'Understanding the Infinite' [Harvard 1994], p.3
15895 | Russell discovered the paradox suggested by Burali-Forti's work [Russell, by Lavine] |
21553 | It seems that the ordinal number of all the ordinals must be bigger than itself [Lackey] |
13482 | The Burali-Forti paradox is a crisis for Cantor's ordinals [Hart,WD] |
13366 | The least ordinal greater than the set of all ordinals is both one of them and not one of them [Priest,G] |
8674 | The Burali-Forti paradox asks whether the set of all ordinals is itself an ordinal [Friend] |