Set Theory for the Working Mathematician

by Krzysztof Ciesielski

Book Overview

This text presents methods of modern set theory as tools that can be usefully applied to other areas of mathematics. The author describes numerous applications in abstract geometry and real analysis and, in some cases, in topology and algebra. The book begins with a tour of the basics of set theory, culminating in a proof of Zorn's Lemma and a discussion of some of its applications. The author then develops the notions of transfinite induction and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521594650
• ISBN13: 9780521594653
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"