Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Download or read book Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded written by Karel Hrbacek and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated chapter affording flexibility in course design, supplies end-of-section problems, with hints, of varying degrees of difficulty, includes new material on normal forms and Goodstein sequences, and adds important recent ideas including filters, ultrafilters, closed unbounded and stationary sets, and partitions.