Lukas' Notes

Definition

Aleph-Null

Aleph-null, written , is the cardinality of the natural numbers and the smallest infinite cardinality:

Thus has cardinality exactly when it is countably infinite: its elements can be listed as , with each element appearing exactly once. It is the first of the aleph numbers.

Equality and Upper Bound

The last condition means at most countable; it does not require to be infinite.