Chapter 2 Set theory and social reality
Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science
ISBN: 978-1-84950-972-5, eISBN: 978-1-84950-973-2
Publication date: 10 August 2010
Abstract
In this section we shall give a brief account of the elementary concepts of set theory – elementary in the sense that they are concepts which students might meet in the first week of a mathematics foundation course at a university; and elementary also in the sense that everything else in mathematics is dependent on them. The concepts are at once both extremely simple and extremely abstract.
Citation
Burt, G. (2010), "Chapter 2 Set theory and social reality", Burt, G. (Ed.) Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-8323(2010)0000015005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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