num_pages: 204
description: This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naïve" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory before discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. It then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as the Borel hierarchy and Lebesgue measure. A final chapter presents an alternative conception of set theory useful in computer science.
language: English
title: The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
titlecomplete: The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
genres: Logic, Mathematics
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Springer