Description: Kuratowski's ordered pair
definition. Definition 9.1 of [Quine] p. 58.
For proper classes it is not meaningful but is well-defined and we allow
it for convenience (see opprc1 3359, opprc1b 3705, opprc2 3360, and opprc3 3706).
For the justifying theorem (for sets) see opth 3695.
There are other ways
to define ordered pairs; the basic requirement is that two ordered pairs
are equal iff their respective members are equal. In 1914 Norbert Wiener
gave the first successful definition    _2
            , justified by opthwiener 3717, which
was simplified by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 1921 to our present definition.
An even simpler definition    _3    
  is
justified by opthreg 5941, but it requires the Axiom of Regularity for
its
justification and is not commonly used. A definition that also works for
proper classes is    _4
            , justified by
opthprc 4179. If we restrict our sets to nonnegative
integers, an ordered
pair definition that involves only elementary arithmetic is provided by
nn0opthi 8300. Finally, an ordered pair of real numbers
can be represented
by a complex number as shown by crui 8371. |