Naive Set Theory

By: P. R. Halmos

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Hardcover | 16 January 1998

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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.

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"This book is a very specialized but broadly useful introduction to set theory. It is aimed at 'the beginning student of advanced mathematics' ... who wants to understand the set-theoretic underpinnings of the mathematics he already knows or will learn soon. It is also useful to the professional mathematician who knew these underpinnings at one time but has now forgotten exactly how they go. ... A good reference for how set theory is used in other parts of mathematics ... ." (Allen Stenger, The Mathematical Association of America, September, 2011)

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Preface
The Axiom of Extension
The Axiom of Specification
Unordered Pairs
Unions and Intersections
Complements and Powers
Ordered Pairs
Relations
Functions
Families
Inverses and Composites
Numbers
The Peano Axioms
Arithmetic
Order
The Axiom of Choice
Zorn's Lemma
Well Ordering
Transfinite Recursion
Ordinal Numbers
Sets of Ordinal Numbers
Ordinal Arithmetic
The Schrwder-Bernstein Theorem
Countable Sets
Cardinal Arithmetic
Carnidal numbers
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