Naïve Set Theory
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Naïve Set Theory

A Rigorous Approach

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eBook - ePub

Naïve Set Theory

A Rigorous Approach

About this book

Naïve Set Theory: A Rigorous Approach aims to provide a complete and unitary presentation of naive set theory as the foundation of the whole mathematics. Suitable for undergraduate students, this book focuses on the main foundational issues, trying to clarify explicitly what is (necessarily) assumed as intuitively known and what is rigorously founded on more elementary concepts. It analyses in detail the nature of natural numbers, both as metatheoretical objects and through their set-theoretical model. The author also pays particular attention to some topics that are not usually covered by the literature on naive set theory, like the universal properties of Cartesian product and disjoint union, that lead to a precise formulation of their basic features (associativity, commutativity, and distributivity). The exposition is organized coherently from the initial meta-theoretical notions to the construction of the universe of well-founded sets.

Features:

  • Replete with exercises, partially spread within the text and partially listed at the end of each chapter with a solutions manual available on www.Routledge.com/9781032933047.
  • Covers foundational topics that are not usually discussed in the literature on naive set theory, such as universal properties of Cartesian product and disjoint union, through which one can properly state associativity, commutativity, and distributivity of these operations.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040305577
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Aims and Target Audience
  9. Author Bio
  10. Chapter 1 Preliminaries
  11. Chapter 2 Hereditary Sets and Basic Operations
  12. Chapter 3 Relations and Functions
  13. Chapter 4 Sets and Indexed Sets
  14. Chapter 5 Universal Properties
  15. Chapter 6 Sets and Classes
  16. Chapter 7 Embedding Natural Numbers in Set Theory
  17. Chapter 8 Well-Orders
  18. Chapter 9 Axioms of Choice
  19. Chapter 10 Cardinality
  20. Chapter 11 Ordinals
  21. Chapter 12 Cardinals
  22. Chapter 13 Well-Founded Sets
  23. Conclusions
  24. Appendix A Hereditary Sets
  25. Appendix B Fundamental Properties
  26. Appendix C Formulations of Recursion
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index