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Naive set theory

Every mathematician agrees that every mathematician must know some set theory; 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.
Print Book, English, ©1974
Springer-Verlag, New York, ©1974
104 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780387900926, 9783540900924, 0387900926, 3540900926
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1 The Axiom of Extension.- 2 The Axiom of Specification.- 3 Unordered Pairs.- 4 Unions and Intersections.- 5 Complements and Powers.- 6 Ordered Pairs.- 7 Relations.- 8 Functions.- 9 Families.- 10 Inverses and Composites.- 11 Numbers.- 12 The Peano Axioms.- 13 Arithmetic.- 14 Order.- 15 The Axiom of Choice.- 16 Zorn’s Lemma.- 17 Well Ordering.- 18 Transfinite Recursion.- 19 Ordinal Numbers.- 20 Sets of Ordinal Numbers.- 21 Ordinal Arithmetic.- 22 The Schröder-Bernstein Theorem.- 23 Countable Sets.- 24 Cardinal Arithmetic.- 25 Cardinal Numbers.