The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486435206 (0486435202)
Publish date: June 18th 2004
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English