Sets and integration An outline of the development
The present text resulted from lectures given by the authors at the Rijks Universiteit at Utrecht. These lectures were part of a series on 'History of Contemporary Mathematics'. The need for such an enterprise was generally felt, since the curriculum at many universities is designed to sui...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1972, 1972
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1972 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Set theory from Cantor to Cohen
- Forebodings
- The exploration of the new continent
- The paradoxes
- The axiom of choice
- Zermelo takes over
- Making inconsistent sets respectable
- The consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis
- The independence of the continuum hypothesis
- Large cardinals
- Games and strategies
- The integral from Riemann to Bourbaki
- Introduction; the period before Riemann
- Riemann, Lebesgue, real functions
- Modern theory of the integral
- List of Mathematicians