2011 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Paul Richard Halmos (1916-2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. "...He (the author) uses the language and notation of ordinary informal mathematics to state the basic set ...
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2011 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Paul Richard Halmos (1916-2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. "...He (the author) uses the language and notation of ordinary informal mathematics to state the basic set-theoretic facts which a beginning student of advanced mathematics needs to know...Because of the informal method of presentation, the book is eminently suited for use as a textbook or for self-study. The reader should derive from this volume a maximum of understanding of the theorems of set theory and of their basic importance in the study of mathematics." - "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research".
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Until reading Halmos's "Naive Set Theory", I thought of this topic as one more branch of mathematics, akin to algebra, analysis, number theory, etc. I now understand that there's an alternative perspective: set theory constitutes the totality of mathematics, i.e., every branch of mathematics can be defined and developed within the set theoretic framework.
"Naive Set Theory" develops this idea in an "elementary" fashion: the exposition is self-containd and the proofs are short and straightforward. This does not mean that it's easy reading. But, the difficulties stem from the unusual notation, and can be overcome. Or, the book can be read for its ideas and its conclusions, which are presented with great clarity; Halmos is an excellent writer.
To whet your appetite for the book, I'll mention one fascinating result, which I've never come across before, despite having read a few other books on the subject of transfinte cardinal and ordinal numbers. The result is short and sweet. It's this: the cardinals are a subset of the ordinals.
