文档介绍：Labyrinth of Thought
A History of Set Theory and Its
Role in Modern Mathematics
Jos@ FerreirOs
Second revised edition
Birkh&user
Basel-Boston-Berlin
Author:
Jos~ Ferreir6s
Dpto. De Filosofia y L6gica
Universidad de Sevilla
Camilo J. Ceta, s/n
41018 Sevilla
Spain
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The first edition of this book was published in 1999 in the series works -
Historicel Studies Vol. 23.
2000 Mathematical Subject Classification: 01-02, 03-03, 03A05
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007931860
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Preface to the second edition
Happily, Labyrinth of Thought has been ed among munities of
mathematicians, historians of mathematics, logicians, and philosophers of mathe-
matics, l For a number of reasons, ranging from the natural wish to reach a wider
readership to my cultural and academic links with th