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Named after Emanuel Sperner.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A family F of subsets of a finite set E in which none of the sets contains another; or, equivalently, an antichain in the inclusion lattice over the power set of E. Full definition →
Named after Emanuel Sperner.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.