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# The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very good book!
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2013*

The book is very easy to read! (at some points, well I have trouble learning new material).The book begins with naive set theory, the stuff every math major first gets exposed to when they first learn about sets.To then introduce precise definitions and the axioms of set theory.  It is very detailed, and exercises are pretty challenging, unless you are some kind of genius, it should be an easy read.I am your average math major, nothing special but I do enjoy the maths they have.  I enjoy the pure side of the subject (like modern algebra and some topology) and this adds as a very interesting topic to know.  If I can read it, you probably can too.Sets, sets and sets.Be careful when reading in public, apparently it looks like the JOY OF SEX to some people :P.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Joyful sets
  

*by J***P on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2014*

Marvellous book by an acknowledged set theory expert and master expositor. Contains all the basics, ordinals and cardinals, but also advanced topics, such as the surprising existence of Aronszajn trees, non well-founded sets, boolean valued models for independence results, and more. The style is pleasant and lucid, with occasional hints that help the intuition. At several places an appetizing view is given on more advanced developments outside the scope of this introductory book. One of my favourite books.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Quite possibly one of the worst mathematics texts I've ever read!
  

*by H***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2007*

This book is completely useless.  It is near impossible for someone to learn Axiomatic Set Theory from this book.  The majority of the proofs in this book go something like "obvious", "trivial", "left to the reader", "an easy exercise" and so on.  The proof may be obvious to the author - but not to someone who is learning the subject for the first time.  The majority of my class also hated this text and I don't think our professor like it too much either.  In fact, the first time our professor recommended opening the book was to see how the Hebrew letters used for cardinal numbers look typed, since he couldn't draw them correctly on the blackboard!  I usually don't write reviews for texts I dislike but I hated this book enough that I felt obliged to caution anyone planning to waste their money on this book.

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