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# A Book of Set Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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Review: Unusually Current for a Great Dover Price - You know Dover-- wonderful for reprinting very high quality texts from back in the 60's or earlier, for 10 bucks US or less, and perfectly adequate for topics that haven't changed since Euclid. But "some" topics, especially those subject to numerical methods, combinatorics and computing, need a makeover to include the web, NumPy, MatLab (or GNU Octave free) and tablet sized supercomputers vs. those era's ideas of computing and combinatorics. This wonderful book gives us the best of both worlds, as the author has graciously updated many areas, such as Russell's paradox (even though it goes back to 1901, let alone 1971!) with additional current set theory paradoxes and current thinking, and many other aspects of set theory and mathematical logic that have become crucial to newer topics like AI, natural language processing, computing, linguistics, combinatorics, the competing category theories, and much more. Even VERY current topics like equivalence in string and M theory use foundation concepts from set theory, so the topic itself is seminal and useful for many fields, from programming to engineering. The book is extremely well written, and quite intuitive (and even fun!) given the dry topic. Although every time I opine that a book requires fairly advanced undergrad I get a bunch of nasty emails from AP High School folks saying they get it, nevertheless, I have to be honest with potential buyers that this IS BOTH a basic (at first), then very advanced text as you proceed. For autodidacts, home schoolers, etc. it makes a wonderful adjunct to the more current texts, as it builds much more gently and intuitively than the majority of "show off" texts today, that expect much more from the reader notation wise. Every author and publisher willing to give as generous a "look inside" as this book does deserves our respect, so do take advantage of it if you're concerned about the level. When you do, you'll see the plentiful diagrams and examples/ exercises that have made this author so popular, for so many decades. If you're old like me, you might "twinge" at the thought of this book, the foundations of which began what was called (and what we were "subjected to") known back then as the "new math." Sets became the transitional pain we endured. Here's the ideal way to make peace with that issue at under 15 bucks! In fact, the author, even back in 71 at the height of it, points out how set theory, in historical perspective, isn't "new" at all, but truly foundational, and as we go forward into topology, rings and even tensors, set theory keeps right up. And if you have a taste for the philosophy of math, indeterminacy, incompleteness, Frege, Godel, uncertainty, and those areas, this is a MUST. Luckily, set theory's "Heisenberg" (Paul Joseph Cohen) published right in this book's wheelhouse, so you'll miss very little by making this choice in that regard. Enjoy!
Review: Very well written and interesting for math nerds - I work with relational database and while I recently told one of my direct reports that you absolutely DONT need to understand set theory at a level this book goes in to, I'm at that point in my career where the progression of my craft really starts to delve into theories, not just practice. That said, I'm also just a big math nerd. I found Godel Escher Bach (which is laden with logical calculus and set theory, although I didn't know it at the time) to be an amazing bit of work, and while this is far from the esoteric nature of that book, I found myself similarly intrigued by how the author presents the information. It really builds from a basic understanding to give you a solid foundation for stating with confidence how sets will behave, and how you can augment pure set theory as well as apply it creatively.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,180,497 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Mathematical Set Theory #3,857 in Mathematics (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (100) |
| Dimensions  | 6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0486497089 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0486497082 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 256 pages |
| Publication date  | July 16, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Dover Publications |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unusually Current for a Great Dover Price
*by P***Z on July 6, 2014*

You know Dover-- wonderful for reprinting very high quality texts from back in the 60's or earlier, for 10 bucks US or less, and perfectly adequate for topics that haven't changed since Euclid. But "some" topics, especially those subject to numerical methods, combinatorics and computing, need a makeover to include the web, NumPy, MatLab (or GNU Octave free) and tablet sized supercomputers vs. those era's ideas of computing and combinatorics. This wonderful book gives us the best of both worlds, as the author has graciously updated many areas, such as Russell's paradox (even though it goes back to 1901, let alone 1971!) with additional current set theory paradoxes and current thinking, and many other aspects of set theory and mathematical logic that have become crucial to newer topics like AI, natural language processing, computing, linguistics, combinatorics, the competing category theories, and much more. Even VERY current topics like equivalence in string and M theory use foundation concepts from set theory, so the topic itself is seminal and useful for many fields, from programming to engineering. The book is extremely well written, and quite intuitive (and even fun!) given the dry topic. Although every time I opine that a book requires fairly advanced undergrad I get a bunch of nasty emails from AP High School folks saying they get it, nevertheless, I have to be honest with potential buyers that this IS BOTH a basic (at first), then very advanced text as you proceed. For autodidacts, home schoolers, etc. it makes a wonderful adjunct to the more current texts, as it builds much more gently and intuitively than the majority of "show off" texts today, that expect much more from the reader notation wise. Every author and publisher willing to give as generous a "look inside" as this book does deserves our respect, so do take advantage of it if you're concerned about the level. When you do, you'll see the plentiful diagrams and examples/ exercises that have made this author so popular, for so many decades. If you're old like me, you might "twinge" at the thought of this book, the foundations of which began what was called (and what we were "subjected to") known back then as the "new math." Sets became the transitional pain we endured. Here's the ideal way to make peace with that issue at under 15 bucks! In fact, the author, even back in 71 at the height of it, points out how set theory, in historical perspective, isn't "new" at all, but truly foundational, and as we go forward into topology, rings and even tensors, set theory keeps right up. And if you have a taste for the philosophy of math, indeterminacy, incompleteness, Frege, Godel, uncertainty, and those areas, this is a MUST. Luckily, set theory's "Heisenberg" (Paul Joseph Cohen) published right in this book's wheelhouse, so you'll miss very little by making this choice in that regard. Enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very well written and interesting for math nerds
*by G***R on February 17, 2017*

I work with relational database and while I recently told one of my direct reports that you absolutely DONT need to understand set theory at a level this book goes in to, I'm at that point in my career where the progression of my craft really starts to delve into theories, not just practice. That said, I'm also just a big math nerd. I found Godel Escher Bach (which is laden with logical calculus and set theory, although I didn't know it at the time) to be an amazing bit of work, and while this is far from the esoteric nature of that book, I found myself similarly intrigued by how the author presents the information. It really builds from a basic understanding to give you a solid foundation for stating with confidence how sets will behave, and how you can augment pure set theory as well as apply it creatively.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book - Pinter is a beast of a writer
*by E***L on May 18, 2020*

Excellent. Like the author’s Abstract Algebra book it is a great mix of intuition and detail and just a dash of history. However, the book gets right into the details. This is a plus! But. If you’ve never even *seen* formal logic or set theory it may seem hard to follow. Judging from the written reviews here some people were completely unfamiliar with set theory or formal logic and were lost. That said, for many even by end of freshman year in college, they’ll have seen basic set theory and formal logic presented multiple times. That quick overview that you get for other courses is all you need to jump into this book. But you should get it. If you have no intuition regarding the excluded middle, etc. you may feel lost.

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