PHILOSOPHY OF SET THEORY, THE - AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO CANTOR'S PARADISE

Focusing on Cantor's quest to determine how many points are in a line, Tiles (philosophy, University of Hawaii) explains the theory of Aristotelian logic and finite permutations and combinations, the principles of generation for ordinal numbers, the axiomatic approach to set theory, Fregean classes, and Russell's logicist reduction.