This undergraduate text develops its subject through observations of the physical world, covering finite sets, cardinal numbers, infinite cardinals, and ordinal

This undergraduate text develops its subject through observations of the physical world, covering finite sets, cardinal numbers, infinite cardinals, and ordinal

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians

This unique approach maintains that set theory is the primary mechanism for ideological and theoretical unification in modern mathematics, and its technically i