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

Devlin, Keith

 
9780387940946: The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

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This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naïve" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory before discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. It then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as the Borel hierarchy and Lebesgue measure. A final chapter presents an alternative conception of set theory useful in computer science.

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This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naïve" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory before discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. It then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as the Borel hierarchy and Lebesgue measure. A final chapter presents an alternative conception of set theory useful in computer science.

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ISBN 10:  1461209048 ISBN 13:  9781461209041
Verlag: Springer, 2011
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