Set Theory With an Introduction to Real Point Sets / by Abhijit Dasgupta.

What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians such as Dedekind and Cantor gave birth to set theory. This textbook presents classical set theory in an intuitive but concrete manner. To a...

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Main Author: Dasgupta, Abhijit (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2014.
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505 0 |a 1 Preliminaries: Sets, Relations, and Functions -- Part I Dedekind: Numbers -- 2 The Dedekind–Peano Axioms -- 3 Dedekind’s Theory of the Continuum -- 4 Postscript I: What Exactly Are the Natural Numbers? -- Part II Cantor: Cardinals, Order, and Ordinals -- 5 Cardinals: Finite, Countable, and Uncountable -- 6 Cardinal Arithmetic and the Cantor Set -- 7 Orders and Order Types -- 8 Dense and Complete Orders -- 9 Well-Orders and Ordinals -- 10 Alephs, Cofinality, and the Axiom of Choice -- 11 Posets, Zorn’s Lemma, Ranks, and Trees -- 12 Postscript II: Infinitary Combinatorics -- Part III Real Point Sets -- 13 Interval Trees and Generalized Cantor Sets -- 14 Real Sets and Functions -- 15 The Heine–Borel and Baire Category Theorems -- 16 Cantor–Bendixson Analysis of Countable Closed Sets -- 17 Brouwer’s Theorem and Sierpinski’s Theorem -- 18 Borel and Analytic Sets -- 19 Postscript III: Measurability and Projective Sets -- Part IV Paradoxes and Axioms -- 20 Paradoxes and Resolutions -- 21 Zermelo–Fraenkel System and von Neumann Ordinals -- 22 Postscript IV: Landmarks of Modern Set Theory -- Appendices -- A Proofs of Uncountability of the Reals -- B Existence of Lebesgue Measure -- C List of ZF Axioms -- References -- List of Symbols and Notations -- Index. 
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