The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
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Main Author: Devlin, Keith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1993
Edition:Second Edition
Series:Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0903-4
Item Description:This book provides an account of those parts of contemporary set theory of direct relevance to other areas of pure mathematics. The intended reader is either an advanced-level mathematics undergraduate, a beginning graduate student in mathematics, or an accomplished mathematician who desires or needs some familiarity with modern set theory. The book is written in a fairly easy-going style, with minimal formalism. In Chapter 1, the basic principles of set theory are developed in a 'naive' manner. Here the notions of 'set', 'union', 'intersection', 'power set', 'relation', 'function', etc., are defined and discussed. One assumption in writing Chapter 1 has been that, whereas the reader may have met all of these 1 concepts before and be familiar with their usage, she may not have considered the various notions as forming part of the continuous development of a pure subject (namely, set theory). Consequently, the presentation is at the same time rigorous and fast
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 194 p)
ISBN:9781461209034
9781461269410
ISSN:0172-6056
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-0903-4