Cardinal Algebras.
With an Appendix Cardinal Products of Isomorphism Types by Bjarni Jónsson and Alfred Tarski.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949 Stock Code: 88446
First edition, first printing and a lovely copy of this "axiomatic study of cardinal numbers (including zero) under finite and countable addition an important axiomatic contribution to the foundations of set theory" in which "many noteworthy theorems about generalized cardinal algebras are proved" (Birkhoff, review, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol 56, no 2, 1956). Author Alfred Tarski (1901-1983), was one of the 20th century's leading mathematicians, logicians, and philosophers, who together with Kurt Gödel, "changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models" (Feferman, Tarski, p. 1).
Description
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket.
Condition
An excellent, fresh copy in the jacket that is a little faded along the spine panel and edges.
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