These notes are an introduction to set theory and topology. Topics covered includes: Sets, Pseudometric
Spaces, Topological Spaces, Completeness and Compactness, Connected Spaces,
Products and Quotients, Separation Axioms, Ordered Sets, Ordinals and
Transfinite Methods, Convergence and Compactifications.
Author(s): Ronald C. Freiwald,
Washington University in St. Louis
This PDF covers the
following topics related to Set Theory : Introduction, Well-orders and
Ordinals, Classes and Transfinite Recursion, Cardinals, Zorn’s Lemma,
Ramsey’s Theorem, Lo´s’s Theorem, Cumulative Hierarchy, Relativization,
Measurable Cardinals, Godel’s Constructible Universe, Banach-Tarski
Paradox.
Goal of these notes is to introduce both some of the basic tools in the
foundations of mathematics and gesture toward some interesting philosophical
problems that arise out of them. Topics covered includes: Axioms and
representations, Backbones and problems, advanced set theory.