Naive set theory
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Naive set theory
(Undergraduate texts in mathematics)
Springer-Verlag, c1974
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Naive set theory / Paul R. Halmos
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Naive set theory / Paul R. Halmos
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Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by Van Nostrand, Princeton, N.J., in series: The University series in undergraduate mathematics
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Description
Every mathematician agrees that every mathematician must know some set theory; the disagreement begins in trying to decide how much is some. This book contains my answer to that question. The purpose of the book is to tell the beginning student of advanced mathematics the basic set theoretic facts of life, and to do so with the minimum of philosophical discourse and logical formalism. The point of view throughout is that of a prospective mathematician anxious to study groups, or integrals, or manifolds. From this point of view the concepts and methods of this book are merely some of the standard mathematical tools; the expert specialist will find nothing new here. Scholarly bibliographical credits and references are out of place in a purely expository book such as this one. The student who gets interested in set theory for its own sake should know, however, that there is much more to the subject than there is in this book. One of the most beautiful sources of set-theoretic wisdom is still Hausdorff's Set theory. A recent and highly readable addition to the literature, with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography, is Axiomatic set theory by Suppes.
Table of Contents
1 The Axiom of Extension.- 2 The Axiom of Specification.- 3 Unordered Pairs.- 4 Unions and Intersections.- 5 Complements and Powers.- 6 Ordered Pairs.- 7 Relations.- 8 Functions.- 9 Families.- 10 Inverses and Composites.- 11 Numbers.- 12 The Peano Axioms.- 13 Arithmetic.- 14 Order.- 15 The Axiom of Choice.- 16 Zorn's Lemma.- 17 Well Ordering.- 18 Transfinite Recursion.- 19 Ordinal Numbers.- 20 Sets of Ordinal Numbers.- 21 Ordinal Arithmetic.- 22 The Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem.- 23 Countable Sets.- 24 Cardinal Arithmetic.- 25 Cardinal Numbers.
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