Introduction to Set Theory, Revised and Expanded

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated chapter affording flexibility in course design, supplies end-of-section problems, with hints, of varying degrees of difficulty, includes new material on normal forms and Goodstein sequences, and adds important recent ideas including filters, ultrafilters, closed unbounded and stationary sets, and partitions.

Author: Karel Hrbacek, Thomas Jech
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 06/22/1999
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.22w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780824779153
3rd Rev and Expande Edition