Numbers, Sets and Axioms: The Apparatus of Mathematics

By A.G. Hamilton

Book Overview

Following the success of Logic for Mathematicians, Dr Hamilton has written a text for mathematicians and students of mathematics that contains a description and discussion of the fundamental... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521245095
• ISBN13: 9780521245098
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good starter kit

For getting a feel for the axiomatic definition of the classic number systems, it's pretty good. Rigorous it ain't but then that's not what it sets out to be. It also leaves out proving quite a few important steps. But a lot of the works out there are difficult to follow and it's not easy to see where they're going. Hamilton's strength is the lucidity of his exposition and his ability to understand exactly where the difficult bits are that need explaining.