| Naive Set Theory 1974 Edition Contributor(s): Halmos, P. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387900926 ISBN-13: 9780387900926 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: From the Reviews: .,."He (the author) uses the language and notation of ordinary informal mathematics to state the basic set-theoretic facts which a beginning student of advanced mathematics needs to know. ...Because of the informal method of presentation, the book is eminently suited for use as a textbook or for self-study. The reader should derive from this volume a maximum of understanding of the theorems of set theory and of their basic importance in the study of mathematics." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Logic |
| Dewey: 511.3 |
| LCCN: 74010687 |
| Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Every mathematician agrees that every mathematician must know some set theory; the disagreement begins in trying to decide how much is some. This book contains my answer to that question. The purpose of the book is to tell the beginning student of advanced mathematics the basic set- theoretic facts of life, and to do so with the minimum of philosophical discourse and logical formalism. The point of view throughout is that of a prospective mathematician anxious to study groups, or integrals, or manifolds. From this point of view the concepts and methods of this book are merely some of the standard mathematical tools; the expert specialist will find nothing new here. Scholarly bibliographical credits and references are out of place in a purely expository book such as this one. The student who gets interested in set theory for its own sake should know, however, that there is much more to the subject than there is in this book. One of the most beautiful sources of set-theoretic wisdom is still Hausdorff's Set theory. A recent and highly readable addition to the literature, with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography, is Axiomatic set theory by Suppes. |