axiom of countable choice
The Axiom of Countable Choice (CC) is a weak form of the Axiom of Choice (http://planetmath.org/AxiomOfChoice).It states that every countable set of nonempty sets has a choice function.
(that is, the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms together with the Axiom of Countable Choice) suffices to prove that the union of countably many countable sets is countable
. It also suffices to prove that every infinite set
has a countably infinite
subset, and that a set is infinite if and only if there is a bijection between and a proper subset
of .