Introduction to Naïve Set Theory and Its Applications

S.M. Srivastava is Emeritus Professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, West Bengal, India, which he joined in 1980. He is also Visiting Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He graduated from the ISI Kolkata, in 1980, under the supervision of Prof. A. Maitra. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, during the academic year 1979–1980. His primary research interest lies in descriptive set theory. He is the recipient of the Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientists. Author of the books, A Course on Borel Sets and A Course on Mathematical Logic (both published by Springer), he is an enthusiastic teacher and has written several expository articles aimed at popularising mathematical logic and set theory in India.

• Introduction.- Functions and Relations.- Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers.- Applications in Other Branches of Mathematics.- Banach-Tarski Paradox.