
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. Includes 32 figures.
Title: The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise (Dover Books on Mathematics);An;Dover Books on Mathematics
ISBN Number: 0486435202
ISBN-13: 9780486435206
Location Published: Dover Publications: June 2004
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Like New
Categories: Philosophy
Seller ID: 85718