In one of the finest treatments for upper undergraduate and graduate level students, Professor Suppes presents axiomatic set theory: the basic paradoxes and history of set theory, and advanced topics such as relations and functions, equipollence, finite sets and cardinal numbers, rational and real numbers and more. Exercises. References. Indexes.

Table of Contents for Axiomatic Set Theory

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Set Theory and the Foundations of Mathematics
1.2 Logic and Notation
1.3 Axiom Schema of Abstraction and Russell's Paradox
1.4 More Paradoxes
1.5 Preview of Axioms
2. GENERAL DEVELOPMENTS
2.1 Preliminaries: Formulas and Definitions
2.2 Axioms of Extensionality and Separation
2.3 "Intersection, Union, and Difference of Sets "
2.4 Pairing Axiom and Ordered Pairs
2.5 Definition by Abstraction
2.6 Sum Axiom and Families of Sets
2.7 Power Set Axiom
2.8 Cartesian Product of Sets
2.9 Axiom of Regularity
2.10 Summary of Axioms
3. RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS
3.1 Operations on Binary Relations
3.2 Ordering Relations
3.3 Equivalence Relations and Partitions
3.4 Functions
4. "EQUIPOLLENCE, FINITE SETS, AND CARDINAL NUMBERS "
4.1 Equipollence
4.2 Finite Sets
4.3 Cardinal Numbers
4.4 Finite Cardinals
5. FINITE ORDINALS AND DENUMERABLE SETS
5.1 Definition and General Properties of Ordinals
5.2 Finite Ordinals and Recursive Definitions
5.3 Denumerable Sets
6. RATIONAL NUMBERS AND REAL NUMBERS
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Fractions
6.3 Non-negative Rational Numbers
6.4 Rational Numbers
6.5 Cauchy Sequences of Rational Numbers
6.6 Real Numbers
6.7 Sets of the Power of the Continuum
7. TRANSFINITE INDUCTION AND ORDINAL ARITHMETIC
7.1 Transfinite Induction and Definition by Transfinite Recursion
7.2 Elements of Ordinal Arithmetic
7.3 Cardinal Numbers Again and Alephs
7.4 Well-Ordered Sets
7.5 Revised Summary of Axioms
8. THE AXIOM OF CHOICE
8.1 Some Applications of the Axiom of Choice
8.2 Equivalents of the Axiom of Choice
8.3 Axioms Which Imply the Axiom of Choice
8.4 Independence of the Axiom of Choice and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis
REFERENCES
GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX

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