Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory

Devlin, Keith J.

Editore: Springer-Verlag, New York, 1979

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Octavo in yellow wraps; viii, 182 pages; 24 cm. "This book is intended to provide an account of those parts of contemporary set theory which are of direct relevance to other areas of pure mathematics. The intended reader is either an advanced level undergraduate, or a beginning graduate student in mathematics, or else an accomplished mathematician who desires or needs a familiarity with modern set theory. This book is written in a fairly easy going style, with a minimum of formalism (a format characteristic of contemporary set theory)." --Preface. Keith J. Devlin "is co-founder and executive director of Stanford University's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (2006), a co-founder of Stanford Media X university-industry research partnership program, and a senior researcher in the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy." --Wikipedia. Contents: Naive set theory. The Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms. Ordinal and cardinal numbers. Some topics in pure set theory. The axiom of constructibility. Independence proofs in set theory. A good (+) copy with clean pages and tight binding; some sunning to spine; sticker on back cover; prior owner signature on title page; damp-staining to bottom edge.

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• Titolo: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
• Editore: Springer-Verlag, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • English
  • Mathematics