The Philosophy of Set Theory An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise
, by Tiles, MaryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780486435206 | 0486435202
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/18/2004
This volume offers a guided tour of modern mathematics' Garden of Eden, beginning with perspectives on the finite universe and classes and Aristotelian logic. Author Mary Tiles further examines permutations, combinations, and infinite cardinalities; numbering the continuum; Cantor's transfinite paradise; axiomatic set theory, and more. 1989 edition. Includes 32 figures.