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A. H. Clifford

A. H. Clifford was a man who lived a long time ago and was very interested in numbers and shapes. He loved to study them and understand how they worked together.

One of the things that A. H. Clifford liked to study was the way numbers could be organized into groups called sets. Sets are a bunch of numbers that belong together because they have something in common, like being even or odd.

A. H. Clifford discovered something really cool about sets. He found out that you can use sets to understand how all different kinds of things are related to each other. For example, you can use sets to see how all the different animals in the world are related or how all the different colors are related.

He also found out that sets can be used to help solve problems in math and even in other fields like science and engineering. It's kind of like a tool that you can use to help you figure things out.

Even though A. H. Clifford lived a long time ago, his ideas are still used today by lots of people who study math and science. His ideas help us understand the world around us and solve big problems that we need to figure out.