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Suitable for undergraduate students as well as professional mathematicians who want to finally find out what transfinite induction is and why it is always replaced by Zorn's Lemma, this text introduces the main subjects of 'naive' (nonaxiomatic) set theory: functions, cardinalities, ordered and well-ordered sets, and operations on ordinals.

Table of Contents
Sets and their cardinalities Ordered sets Bibliography Glossary Index.

Basic Set Theory

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    A Paperback by A. Shen, N.K. Vereshchagin

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      Publisher: MP-AMM American Mathematical
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/30/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780821827314, 978-0821827314
      ISBN10: 0821827316

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suitable for undergraduate students as well as professional mathematicians who want to finally find out what transfinite induction is and why it is always replaced by Zorn's Lemma, this text introduces the main subjects of 'naive' (nonaxiomatic) set theory: functions, cardinalities, ordered and well-ordered sets, and operations on ordinals.

      Table of Contents
      Sets and their cardinalities Ordered sets Bibliography Glossary Index.

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