The Continuum and Other Types of Serial Order: With an Introduction to Cantor's Transfinite Numbers, Second Edition

by Edward Vermilye Huntington

This classic of mathematics presents the best systematic elementary account of the modern theory of the continuum as a type of serial order. Based on the Dedekind-Cantor ordinal theory, it requires no knowledge of higher mathematics. Includes 119 footnotes, mostly bibliographical. "An admirable introduction." -- "Science Progress." 1917 edition.

Genres: Mathematics

89 pages, Hardcover

Published February 5, 1929