# Russell's paradox > One of the logical paradoxes - a contradiction - in naive set theory, discovered by Bertrand Russell in or around 1901. One of the logical paradoxes - a contradiction - in , discovered by in or around <1901>. > Let $R = \{x \mid x \notin x\}$ then $R \in R \iff R \notin R$. ## Articles - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox