Hausdorff maximal principle
(redirected from Hausdorff's maximum principle)Hausdorff maximal principle
[′hau̇s·dȯrf ′mak·sə·məl ‚prin·sə·pəl] (mathematics)
The principle that every partially ordered set has a linearly ordered subset S which is maximal in the sense that S is not a proper subset of another linearly ordered subset.