Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T10:37:18.785Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Did Cantor need set theory?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Stephen G. Simpson
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Get access

Summary

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

[1] Douglas K., Brown, Functional analysis in weak subsystems of second order arithmetic, Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1987.
[2] Douglas K., Brown, Notions of closed subsets of a complete separable metric space in weak subsystems of second order arithmetic,Logic and computation (Wilfried, Sieg, editor), Contemporary Mathematics, no. 106, American Mathematical Society, 1990, pp. 39–50.Google Scholar
[3] Douglas K., Brown and Stephen G., Simpson, Which set existence axioms are needed to prove the separable Hahn-Banach theorem?,Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, vol. 31 (1986), pp. 123–144.
[4] Douglas K., Brown, The Baire category theorem in weak subsytems of second order arithmetic,The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 58 (1993), pp. 557–578.
[5] Georg, Cantor, Contributions to the founding of the theory of transfinite numbers, Dover Publications, Inc., 1955, translated and provided with an introduction and notes by Philip E. B., Jourdain.
[6] Joseph W., Dauben, The trigonometric background to Georg Cantor's theory of sets,Archive for History of Exact Sciences, (1971), no. 7, pp. 181–216.
[7] Joseph, Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite, Harvard University Press, 1979.
[8] Harvey, Friedman and Jeffry L., Hirst, Reverse mathematics of homeomorphic embeddings,Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, vol. 54 (1991), pp. 229–253.
[9] Jeffry L., Hirst, Derived sequences and reverse mathematics, Mathematical Logic Quarterly, vol. 39 (1993), pp. 447–453.
[10] A. James, Humphreys, On the necessary use of strong set existence axioms in analysis and functional analysis, Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
[11] Yitzhak, Katznelson, An introduction to harmonic analysis, Dover Publications, Inc., 1976.
[12] A. S., Kechris and A., Louveau, Descriptive set theory and harmonic analysis,The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 57 (1992), no. 2, pp. 413–441.
[13] Alexander S., Kechris and Alain, Louveau, Descriptive set theory and the structure of sets of uniqueness, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
[14] Naoki, Shioji and Kazuyuki, Tanaka, Fixed point theory in weak second-order arithmetic,Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, vol. 47 (1990), pp. 167–188.
[15] Stephen G., Simpson, Subsystems of second order arithmetic, Perspectives inMathematical Logic, Springer–Verlag, 1999.
[16] Xiaokang, Yu, Measure theory in weak subsystems of second order arithmetic, Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1987.
[17] Xiaokang, Yu, Lebesgue convergence theorems and reverse mathematics,Mathematical Logic Quarterly, vol. 40 (1994), pp. 1–13.

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×