The Continuum, and Other Types of Serial Order: With an Introduction to Cantor's Transfinite Numbers

Huntington, Edward V.

ISBN 10: 0486495507 / ISBN 13: 9780486495507

Published by Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, U.S.A., 2003

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minor wear, vii + 82 pages including index, reprint of a 1917 title on the theory that underlies the definition of irrational numbers Size: 5.75 x 9.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Continuum, and Other Types of Serial Order: With an Introduction to Cantor's Transfinite Numbers
• Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486495507
• ISBN 13: 9780486495507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science/Technology/Construction

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Synopsis

"An admirable introduction to the rigorous theory of the continuum."—Science Progress

"Extremely readable . . . a clear axiomatically constructed introduction."—Elemente der Mathematik

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, this text requires no knowledge of higher mathematics. Contents include a historical introduction and chapters on classes in general; simply ordered classes, or series; discrete series, especially the type of the natural numbers; dense series, especially the type of the rational numbers; continuous series, especially the type of the real numbers; continuous series of more than one dimension, with a note on multiply ordered classes; and well ordered series, with an introduction to Cantor's transfinite numbers. 1917 edition. 119 footnotes, mostly bibliographical.

About the Author

E. V. Huntington (1874–1952) taught at Harvard from 1901 until his retirement in 1941. He was President of the Mathematical Association of America in 1919 and at different times an officer of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.