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The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) Book

Covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of 'naive' set theory, this text develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel...Read More

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    This book is intended to provide an account of those parts of contemporary set theory that are relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the text is written in an easy-going style, with a minimum of formalism. The book begins with a review of "naive" set theory; it then develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory, showing how they arise naturally from a rigorous answer to the question, "what is a set?" After discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers, the book then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as: the Borel hierarchy, stationary sets and regressive functions, and Lebesgue measure. Two chapters present an extension of the Zermelo-Fraenkel theory, discussing the axiom of constructibility and the question of provability in set theory. A final chapter presents an account of an alternative conception of set theory that has proved useful in computer science, the non-well-founded set theory of Peter Aczel. The author is a well-known mathematician and the editor of the "Computers in Mathematics" column in the AMS Notices and of FOCUS, the magazine published by the MAA.

  • 0387940944
  • 9780387940946
  • Keith Devlin
  • 3 August 1993
  • Springer
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 212
  • 2nd ed. 1993. Corr. 2nd printing
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