Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and Influence (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, No. 8) by Moore, Gregory H - 1982

New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer, 1982. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Series Yellow cloth boards with black titling. Page edges stamped with library name. Scars/adhesive and paper residue to rear end paper and pastedown where book plate/envelope removed. Binding is sound and interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Contents include: The prehistory of the axiom of choice; Zermelo and his critics (1904-1908); Zermelo's axiom and axiomatization in transition (1908-1918); The Warsaw School, widening applications, models of set theory (1918-1940); and Epilogue: After Godel. 'This book grew out of my interest in what is common to three disciplines: mathematics, philosophy, and history. The origins of Zermelo's Axiom of Choice, as well as the controversy that it engendered, certainly lie in that intersection. Since the time of Aristotle, mathematics has been concerned alternately with its assumptions and with the objects, such as number and space, about which those assumptions were made. In the historical context of Zermelo's Axiom, I have explored both the vagaries and the fertility of this alternating concern. Though Zermelo's research has provided the focus for this book, much of it is devoted to the problems from which his work originated and to the later developments which, directly or indirectly, he inspired.' Includes bibliography, index of subject propositions and general index. Zermelo, Ernst, 1871-, Axiom of choice