Every mathematician agrees that every mathematician must know some set theory; the disagreement begins in trying to decide how much is some. This book contains my answer to that question. The purpose of the book is to tell the beginning student of advanced mathematics the basic set theoretic facts of life, and to do so with the minimum of philosophical discourse and logical formalism. The point of view throughout is that of a prospective mathematician anxious to study groups, or integrals, or manifolds. From this point of view the concepts and methods of this book are merely some of the standard mathematical tools; the expert specialist will find nothing new here. Scholarly bibliographical credits and references are out of place in a purely expository book such as this one. The student who gets interested in set theory for its own sake should know, however, that there is much more to the subject than there is in this book. One of the most beautiful sources of set-theoretic wisdom is still Hausdorff's Set theory. A recent and highly readable addition to the literature, with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography, is Axiomatic set theory by Suppes.
目录
1 The Axiom of Extension.- 2 The Axiom of Specification.- 3 Unordered Pairs.- 4 Unions and Intersections.- 5 Complements and Powers.- 6 Ordered Pairs.- 7 Relations.- 8 Functions.- 9 Families.- 10 Inverses and Composites.- 11 Numbers.- 12 The Peano Axioms.- 13 Arithmetic.- 14 Order.- 15 The Axiom of Choice.- 16 Zorn's Lemma.- 17 Well Ordering.- 18 Transfinite Recursion.- 19 Ordinal Numbers.- 20 Sets of Ordinal Numbers.- 21 Ordinal Arithmetic.- 22 The Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem.- 23 Countable Sets.- 24 Cardinal Arithmetic.- 25 Cardinal Numbers.
作者简介
保罗·理查德·哈尔莫斯(Paul Richard Halmos)(1916年3月3日生于布达佩斯;2006年10月2日生于美国加利福尼亚州洛斯加托斯)是一位匈牙利裔美国数学家,在概率论、统计学、遍历理论、函数分析(特别是希尔伯特空间)和数理逻辑领域进行研究。他还写过几本教科书。
保罗·哈尔莫斯在芝加哥学习化学、哲学和数学。
Paul Richard Halmos (* 3. März 1916 in Budapest; † 2. Oktober 2006 in Los Gatos, Kalifornien, USA) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker ungarischer Herkunft, der auf den Gebieten Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Statistik, Ergodentheorie, Funktionalanalysis (insbesondere Hilberträume) und mathematische Logik geforscht hat. Er hat außerdem mehrere Lehrbücher verfasst.
Paul Halmos studierte in Chicago Chemie, Philosophie und Mathematik.
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