Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Review: A Course in Set Theory


A Course in Set Theory
A Course in Set Theory by Ernest Schimmerling

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This is an excellent, self-contained outline suitable for a one-semester introductory course. Backed up by lecture, I can see this succeeding very well. I am more concerned for the independent reader looking for a self-paced introduction and even having suitable mathematical background. The exercises have no solutions, but there are strategic hints and they tie so well to the relevant text that I see no problem there. Rather, I would have two small improvements. First a more thorough, lengthy index and secondly the foundational ZFC should be numbered definitions as an aid to when they are referred to later in the text.

[Look for my complete review at MAA Reviews: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/]



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