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Axiom of choice

AC, the axiom of choice, because of its non-constructive character, is the most controversial mathematical axiom. This treatise shows paradigmatically that disasters happen without AC and they happen with AC.
eBook, English, ©2006
Springer, Berlin, ©2006
1 online resource (XIV, 194 p.) : illustrations
9783540342687, 9783540309895, 3540342680, 3540309896
314342436
Available in another form:
Origins: Hilbert's First Problem
Choice Principles: Some Equivalents to the Axiom of Choice, Some Concepts Related to the Axiom of Choice
Elementary Observations: Hidden Choice, Unnecessary Choice, Concepts Split Up: Compactness
Disasters without Choice: Finiteness, Disasters in Cardinal Arithmetic, Disasters in Order Theory, Disasters in Algebra I: Vector Spaces, Disasters in Algebra II: Categories, Disasters in Elementary Analysis: The Reals and Continuity, Disasters in Topology I: Countable Sums, Disasters in Topology II: Products (The Tychonoff and the Cech-Stone Theorem), Disasters in Topology III: Function Spaces (The Ascoli Theorem), Disasters in Topology IV: The Baire Category Theorem, Disasters in Graph Theory: Coloring Problems
Disasters with Choice: Disasters in Elementary Analysis, Disasters in Geometry: Paradoxical Decompositions
Disasters either way: Disasters in Game Theory
Beauty without Choice: Lindelöf = Compact, Measurability (The Axiom of Determinateness)