The Joy of Sets
Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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This book provides an account of those parts of contemporary set theory of direct relevance to other areas of pure mathematics. The intended reader is either an advanced-level mathematics undergraduate, a beginning graduate student in mathematics, or an accomplished mathematician who desires or needs some familiarity with modern set theory. The book is written in a fairly easy-going style, with minimal formalism. In Chapter 1, the basic principles of set theory are developed in a 'naive' manner. Here the notions of 'set', 'union', 'intersection', 'power set', 'rela tion', 'function', etc., are defined and discussed. One assumption in writing Chapter 1 has been that, whereas the reader may have met all of these 1 concepts before and be familiar with their usage, she may not have con sidered the various notions as forming part of the continuous development of a pure subject (namely, set theory). Consequently, the presentation is at the same time rigorous and fast.
This book is intended to provide an account of those parts of contemporary set theory that are relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the text is written in an easy-going style, with a minimum of formalism. The book begins with a review of "naive" set theory; it then develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory, showing how they arise naturally from a rigorous answer to the question, "what is a set?" After discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers, the book then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as: the Borel hierarchy, stationary sets and regressive functions, and Lebesgue measure. Two chapters present an extension of the Zermelo-Fraenkel theory, discussing the axiom of constructibility and the question of provability in set theory. A final chapter presents an account of an alternative conception of set theory that has proved useful in computer science, the non-well-founded set theory of Peter Aczel. The author is a well-known mathematician and the editor of the "Computers in Mathematics" column in the AMS Notices and of FOCUS, the magazine published by the MAA.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Joy of Sets “
1 Naive Set Theory.- 1.1 What is a Set?.- 1.2 Operations on Sets.- 1.3 Notation for Sets.- 1.4 Sets of Sets.- 1.5 Relations.- 1.6 Functions.- 1.7 Well-Or der ings and Ordinals.- 1.8 Problems.- 2 The Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms.- 2.1 The Language of Set Theory.- 2.2 The Cumulative Hierarchy of Sets.- 2.3 The Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms.- 2.4 Classes.- 2.5 Set Theory as an Axiomatic Theory.- 2.6 The Recursion Principle.- 2.7 The Axiom of Choice.- 2.8 Problems.- 3 Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers.- 3.1 Ordinal Numbers.- 3.2 Addition of Ordinals.- 3.3 Multiplication of Ordinals.- 3.4 Sequences of Ordinals.- 3.5 Ordinal Exponentiation.- 3.6 Cardinality, Cardinal Numbers.- 3.7 Arithmetic of Cardinal Numbers.- 3.8 Regular and Singular Cardinals.- 3.9 Cardinal Exponentiation.- 3.10 Inaccessible Cardinals.- 3.11 Problems.- 4 Topics in Pure Set Theory.- 4.1 The Borel Hierarchy.- 4.2 Closed Unbounded Sets.- 4.3 Stationary Sets and Regressive Functions.- 4.4 Trees.- 4.5 Extensions of Lebesgue Measure.- 4.6 A Result About the GCH.- 5 The Axiom of Constructibility.- 5.1 Constructible Sets.- 5.2 The Constructible Hierarchy.- 5.3 The Axiom of Constructibility.- 5.4 The Consistency of V = L.- 5.5 Use of the Axiom of Constructibility.- 6 Independence Proofs in Set Theory.- 6.1 Some Undecidable Statements.- 6.2 The Idea of a Boolean-Valued Universe.- 6.3 The Boolean-Valued Universe.- 6.4 VB and V.- 6.5 Boolean-Valued Sets and Independence Proofs.- 6.6 The Nonprovability of the CH.- 7 Non-Well-Founded Set Theory.- 7.1 Set-Membership Diagrams.- 7.2 The Anti-Foundation Axiom.- 7.3 The Solution Lemma.- 7.4 Inductive Definitions Under AFA.- 7.5 Graphs and Systems.- 7.6 Proof of the Solution Lemma.- 7.7 Co-Inductive Definitions.- 7.8 A Model of ZF- +AFA.- Glossary of Symbols.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Keith Devlin
- 1993, 2. Aufl., X, 194 Seiten, Masse: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 0387940944
- ISBN-13: 9780387940946
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.1994
Sprache:
Englisch
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