Sets: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Potter, Michael D.

 
9780198533993: Sets: An Introduction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198533993 ISBN 13 : 9780198533993
Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

Synopsis

This book is an introduction to set theory in which the author develops the subject from first principles and presupposes little more than an elementary grounding in logic. Throughout much attention is paid to the historical and philosophical background which illuminates the subject's development. This book differs from most by providing a particularly elegant and intuitive approach based on Scott's formulation of standard set theory in which sets are built up stage by stage. This approach has the advantage of introducing the axioms of set theory in a natural way and shows how they come to take the form they do. The book covers all the basic tools of set theory" the natural numbers, cardinals, ordinals, and the axiom of choice in some detail. It also provides an account of the representation theory of lattices and how this is closely connected with the various forms of the axiom of choice.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is an introduction to set theory in which the author develops the subject from first principles and presupposes little more than an elementary grounding in logic. Throughout much attention is paid to the historical and philosophical background which illuminates the subject's development. This book differs from most by providing a particularly elegant and intuitive approach based on Scott's formulation of standard set theory in which sets are built up stage by stage. This approach has the advantage of introducing the axioms of set theory in a natural way and shows how they come to take the form they do. The book covers all the basic tools of set theory" the natural numbers, cardinals, ordinals, and the axiom of choice in some detail. It also provides an account of the representation theory of lattices and how this is closely connected with the various forms of the axiom of choice.

Revue de presse

'This text offers a new and interesting view of the foundations of mathematics, rigorously developed and written in a comprehensible style.' H. Mitsch, Monatshefte für Mathematik

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, USA
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198533993
ISBN 13 
9780198533993
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
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