num_pages: 272
description: This volume offers a guided tour of modern mathematics' Garden of Eden, beginning with perspectives on the finite universe and classes and Aristotelian logic. Author Mary Tiles further examines permutations, combinations, and infinite cardinalities; numbering the continuum; Cantor's transfinite paradise; axiomatic set theory, and more. 1989 edition. Includes 32 figures.
language: English
title: The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise (Dover Books on Mathematics);An;Dover Books on Mathematics
titlecomplete: The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise (Dover Books on Mathematics);An;Dover Books on Mathematics
genres: Mathematics, History, Philosophy, Science, Logic, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 50
publisher: Dover Publications