Zermelo's Well-Ordering Theorem/Also known as

Zermelo's Well-Ordering Theorem: Also known as

Zermelo's well-ordering theorem is also known just as the well-ordering theorem.

Some sources omit the hyphen: (Zermelo's) well ordering theorem.


It is also known just as Zermelo's theorem.

Under this name it can often be seen worded:

Every set of cardinals is well-ordered with respect to $\le$.

This is called by some authors the trichotomy problem.


It is also referred to as the well-ordering principle, but this causes confusion with the result that states that the natural numbers are well-ordered.

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