The Continuum and Other Types of Serial Order - Softcover

Huntington, Edward V

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602062951 ISBN 13: 9781602062955

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2007

Synopsis

This classic of mathematics presents the best systematic elementary account of the modern theory of the continuum as a type of serial order. Based on the Dedekind-Cantor ordinal theory, it requires no knowledge of higher mathematics. Includes 119 footnotes, mostly bibliographical. "An admirable introduction." — Science Progress. 1917 edition.

About this title

About the Author

American mathematician EDWARD VERMILYE HUNTINGTON (1874-1952) served in executive positions for the Mathematical Association of America, which he helped found, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also wrote Four Place Tables of Logarithms and Trigonometric Functions (1907), Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers (1918), and Fundamental Propositions of Algebra (1941).

From the Back Cover

This classic 1917 work, a longtime standard text on set theory, is an essential foundation for understanding irrational numbers, advanced algebra, and modern number theory. In easy-to-understand language and with clear equations, the author, a Harvard professor of mathematics, discusses:

* On Classes in General * On Simply Ordered Classes, or Series * Discrete Series * Continuous Series * Well-Ordered Series * An Introduction to Cantor's Transfinite Numbers

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1602062951
• ISBN 13: 9781602062955
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 108