ENGLISH

Sets: Naïve, Axiomatic and Applied

By D. van Dalen , H.C.Doets , H. de Swart

Book information

Publisher
Pergamon Press
Year
1978
ISBN
0-08-021166-6, 0-08-023047-4
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2090315 bytes)
Series
International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics 106
Pages
354\354
Topic
Mathematics Logic
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-02 21:34:36

Description

Set theory is a funny discipline. For ages and ages mathematics has managed without set theory, but nowadays one gets from the average textbook the impression that set theory is absolutely indispensable. Even texts for high schools (not to mention nursery schools) start with sets, unions, intersections, etc. Among the professional mathematicians there are some who claim that "there are no things but sets" How do these extremists justify their opinion? We will try to unearth some of the motivation for a belief in the supremacy of set theory.

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