The modern study of set theory was initiated by Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekind in the 1870s. However, the discovery of paradoxes in naive set theory, such as Russell's paradox, led to the desire for a more rigorous form of set theory that was free of these paradoxes.
The modern study of set theory was initiated by Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekind in the 1870s However the discovery of paradoxes in naive set theory such as Russell's paradox led to the desire for a more rigorous form of set theory that was free of these paradoxes