As a newly minted Ph.D., Paul Halmos came to the Institute for Advanced Study in 1938 - even though he did not have a fellowship - to study among the many giants of mathematics who had recently joined the faculty. He eventually became John von Neumann's research assistant, and it was one of von Neumann's inspiring lectures that spurred Halmos to ...
From the Reviews: "...He (the author) uses the language and notation of ordinary informal mathematics to state the basic set-theoretic facts which a beginning student of advanced mathematics needs to know...Because of the informal method of presentation, the book is eminently suited for use as a textbook or for self-study. The reader should derive ...
From the Preface: 'This book was written for the active reader. The first part consists of problems, frequently preceded by definitions and motivation, and sometimes followed by corollaries and historical remarks...The second part, a very short one, consists of hints...The third part, the longest, consists of solutions: proofs, answers, or ...
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