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Set Theory for the Working Mathematician

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ISBN-10: 0521594650

ISBN-13: 9780521594653

Edition: 1997

Authors: Krzysztof Ciesielski, C. M. Series, J. W. Bruce

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Ciesielski presents methods of modern set theory as tools that can be usefully applied to other areas of mathematics, describing numerous applications in abstract geometry and real analysis and, in some cases, in topology and algebra.
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Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Krzysztof Ciesielski is Professor of Mathematics at West Virginia University.

Preface
Basics of set theory
Axiomatic set theory
Why axiomatic set theory?
The language and the basic axioms
Relations, functions, and Cartesian product
Relations and the axiom of choice
Functions and the replacement scheme axiom
Generalized union, intersection, and Cartesian product
Partial- and linear-order relations
Natural numbers, integers, and real numbers
Natural numbers
Integers and rational numbers
Real numbers
Fundamental tools of set theory
Well orderings and transfinite induction
Well-ordered sets and the axiom of foundation
Ordinal numbers
Definitions by transfinite induction
Zorn's lemma in algebra, analysis, and topology
Cardinal numbers
Cardinal numbers and the continuum hypothesis
Cardinal arithmetic
Cofinality
The power of recursive definitions
Subsets of R[superscript n]
Strange subsets of R[superscript n] and the diagonalization argument
Closed sets and Borel sets
Lebesgue-measurable sets and sets with the Baire property
Strange real functions
Measurable and nonmeasurable functions
Darboux functions
Additive functions and Hamel bases
Symmetrically discontinuous functions
When induction is too short
Martin's axiom
Rasiowa-Sikorski lemma
Martin's axiom
Suslin hypothesis and diamond principle
Forcing
Elements of logic and other forcing preliminaries
Forcing method and a model for [not sign]CH
Model for CH and [diamonds suit symbol]
Product lemma and Cohen model
Model for MA+[not sign]CH
Axioms of set theory
Comments on the forcing method
Notation
References
Index