Set Theory and the Continuum Problem - Brossura

Smullyan, Raymond M.; Fitting, Melvin

 
9780486474847: Set Theory and the Continuum Problem
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0486474844 ISBN 13: 9780486474847
Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2010

Sinossi

A lucid, elegant, and complete survey of set theory, this volume is drawn from the authors' substantial teaching experience. The first of three parts focuses on axiomatic set theory. The second part explores the consistency of the continuum hypothesis, and the final section examines forcing and independence results.
Part One's focus on axiomatic set theory features nine chapters that examine problems related to size comparisons between infinite sets, basics of class theory, and natural numbers. Additional topics include author Raymond Smullyan's double induction principle, super induction, ordinal numbers, order isomorphism and transfinite recursion, and the axiom of foundation and cardinals. The six chapters of Part Two address Mostowski-Shepherdson mappings, reflection principles, constructible sets and constructibility, and the continuum hypothesis. The text concludes with a seven-chapter exploration of forcing and independence results. This treatment is noteworthy for its clear explanations of highly technical proofs and its discussions of countability, uncountability, and mathematical induction, which are simultaneously charming for experts and understandable to graduate students of mathematics.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.
Melvin Fitting, a former student of Dr. Smullyan, is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College, City University of New York.

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Editore
Dover Pubns
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0486474844
ISBN 13 
9780486474847
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
315
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0198523955 ISBN 13:  9780198523956
Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1996
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