Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Logic of Infinity, PDF eBook

The Logic of Infinity PDF

PDF

Download - Immediately Available
Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

Few mathematical results capture the imagination like Georg Cantor's groundbreaking work on infinity in the late nineteenth century.

This opened the door to an intricate axiomatic theory of sets which was born in the decades that followed.

Written for the motivated novice, this book provides an overview of key ideas in set theory, bridging the gap between technical accounts of mathematical foundations and popular accounts of logic.

Readers will learn of the formal construction of the classical number systems, from the natural numbers to the real numbers and beyond, and see how set theory has evolved to analyse such deep questions as the status of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice.

Remarks and digressions introduce the reader to some of the philosophical aspects of the subject and to adjacent mathematical topics.

The rich, annotated bibliography encourages the dedicated reader to delve into what is now a vast literature.

Information

Other Formats

Save 15%

£36.99

£31.44

Download - Immediately Available
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Delivered to your inbox

to transfer to your device

eBook Help

Is this the right eBook for
my device? How do I download
this eBook? See help and FAQs pages

Information