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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', 'rela tion', '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 con sidered 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.
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Book Title: The Joy of Sets
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
Authors: Keith Devlin
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0903-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94094-6Published: 03 August 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6941-0Published: 06 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0903-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0172-6056
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5604
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 194
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph with the title: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
Topics: Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Math Applications in Computer Science