<p><p>What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians such as Dedekind and Cantor gave birth to set theory. This textbook presents classical set theory in an intuitive but concrete manner
Set theory with an introduction to real point sets
✍ Scribed by Dasgupta, Abhijit
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser, Springer
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
1 Preliminaries: Sets, Relations, and Functions.- Part I Dedekind: Numbers.- 2 The Dedekind-Peano Axioms.- 3 Dedekind's Theory of the Continuum.- 4 Postscript I: What Exactly Are the Natural Numbers?.- Part II Cantor: Cardinals, Order, and Ordinals.- 5 Cardinals: Finite, Countable, and Uncountable.- 6 Cardinal Arithmetic and the Cantor Set.- 7 Orders and Order Types.- 8 Dense and Complete Orders.- 9 Well-Orders and Ordinals.- 10 Alephs, Cofinality, and the Axiom of Choice.- 11 Posets, Zorn's Lemma, Ranks, and Trees.- 12 Postscript II: Infinitary Combinatorics.- Part III Real Point Sets.- 13 Interval Trees and Generalized Cantor Sets.- 14 Real Sets and Functions.- 15 The Heine-Borel and Baire Category Theorems.- 16 Cantor-Bendixson Analysis of Countable Closed Sets.- 17 Brouwer's Theorem and Sierpinski's Theorem.- 18 Borel and Analytic Sets.- 19 Postscript III: Measurability and Projective Sets.- Part IV Paradoxes and Axioms.- 20 Paradoxes and Resolutions.- 21 Zermelo-Fraenkel System and von Neumann Ordinals.- 22 Postscript IV: Landmarks of Modern Set Theory.- Appendices.- A Proofs of Uncountability of the Reals.- B Existence of Lebesgue Measure.- C List of ZF Axioms.- References.- List of Symbols and Notations.- Index.
✦ Subjects
Algebra;Analyse mathématique;Global analysis (Mathematics);Logic;Logic, Symbolic and mathematical;Logique mathématique--Problèmes et exercices;Mathematics;Théorie des ensembles--Problèmes et exercices;Topology;Théorie des ensembles -- Problèmes et exercices;Logique mathématique -- Problèmes et exercices;Analyse mathématique
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<p><p>What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians such as Dedekind and Cantor gave birth to set theory. This textbook presents classical set theory in an intuitive but concrete manner