Set theory
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Set theory
(London Mathematical Society student texts, 48)
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Halmazeimélet
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-296) and indexes
Oribinally published in Hungarian as Halmazeimélet
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a classic introduction to set theory in three parts. The first part gives a general introduction to set theory, suitable for undergraduates; complete proofs are given and no background in logic is required. Exercises are included, and the more difficult ones are supplied with hints. An appendix to the first part gives a more formal foundation to axiomatic set theory, supplementing the intuitive introduction given in the first part. The final part gives an introduction to modern tools of combinatorial set theory. This part contains enough material for a graduate course of one or two semesters. The subjects discussed include stationary sets, delta systems, partition relations, set mappings, measurable and real-valued measurable cardinals. Two sections give an introduction to modern results on exponentiation of singular cardinals, and certain deeper aspects of the topics are developed in advanced problems.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction to Set Theory: 1. Notation, conventions
- 2. Definition of equivalence. The concept of cardinality. The axiom of choice
- 3. Countable cardinal, continuum cardinal
- 4. Comparison of cardinals
- 5. Operations with sets and cardinals
- 6. Examples
- 7. Ordered sets. Order types. Ordinals
- 8. Properties of well-ordered sets. Good sets. The ordinal operation
- 9. Transfinite induction and recursion
- 10. Definition of the cardinality operation. Properties of cardinalities. The confinality operation
- 11. Properties of the power operation
- Appendix. An axiomatic development of set theory
- Part II. Topics in Combinatorial Set Theory: 12. Stationary sets
- 13. Delta-systems
- 14. Ramsey's theorem and its generalizations. Partition calculus
- 15. Inaccessible cardinals. Mahlo cardinals
- 16. Measurable cardinals
- 17. Real-valued measurable cardinals, saturated ideas
- 18. Weakly compact and Ramsey cardinals
- 19. Set mappings
- 20. The square-bracket symbol. Strengthenings of the Ramsey counterexamples
- 21. Properties of the power operation
- 22. Powers of singular cardinals. Shelah's theorem.
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