A Translation of "Die Normalfunktionen und das Problem der ausgezeichneten Folgen von Ordnungszahlen" by Heinz Bachmann
Abstract
This is a translation of Heinz Bachmann's influential paper, wherein the Bachmann-Howard ordinal is defined, and some general considerations given on systems of ordinal functions. Permission to post has been granted by the editors of Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zurich (www.ngzh.ch)
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