A Formal Background to Mathematics: Logic, Sets and Numbers

by R.E. Edwards

1 Faced by the questions mentioned in the Preface I was prompted to write this book on the assumption that a typical reader will have certain characteristics. He will presumably be familiar with conventional accounts of certain portions of mathematics and with many so-called mathematical statements, some of which (the theorems) he will know (either because he has himself studied and digested a proof or because he accepts the authority of others) to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038790431X
• ISBN13: 9780387904313
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 935 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"