Wikipedia: History of Collection

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In mathematics, collection is another term for set, or sometimes for class.

In common usage, a collection is any group of items that has one or more properties in common.
For example, paintings from the same artist, or coins? from Germany before 1900.

In mathematics, collection is another term for set, or sometimes for class.

	Revision 6 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 2:21 am by Zundark [copyediting of first paragraph]
	Revision 5 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 2:17 am by (logged).117.133.xxx [Redirected "class" to "mathematical class"]
	Revision 4 . . (edit) October 26, 2001 12:24 am by Magnus Manske [Well, more extensive than before...]
	Revision 2 . . (edit) August 12, 2001 10:04 pm by Zundark [set or class]