Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces
Math 445 -- Fall 2009


Books on Counting and the Axiom of Choice

Georg Cantor - His life and ideas

  1. "Georg Cantor" by Joseph W. Dauben - Read reviews on amazon.com

  2. "Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Number" by Georg Cantor - Read reviews on amazon.com

  3. "The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise" by Mary Stiles - Read reviews on amazon.com

Somewhere between fiction and non-fiction

  1. "The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity" by Amir D. Aczel - Read reviews on amazon.com

  2. "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" by David Foster Wallace - Read reviews on amazon.com

Counting, Measure and Paradoxes

  1. "Measure and the Integral" by Henri Lebesgue and Kenneth O. May - amazon.com

  2. "The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox" by Leonard M. Wapner - Read reviews on amazon.com

  3. "The Banach-Tarski Paradox" by Stan Wagon- Read reviews on amazon.com


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