A Crash Course in the Mathematics Of Infinite Sets

A very dense and readable summary of some of the key concepts in set theory. Warning!! -- May cause mind-blowing

A Crash Course in the Mathematics Of Infinite Sets
legacy.earlham.edu

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lty distribution. Without any intervention of law, therefore, the private interests and passions of men naturally lead them to divide and distribute the stock of every society among all the different employments carried on in it; as nearly as possible in the proportion which is most agreeable to the interest of the whole society.

All the different regulations of the mercantile system necessarily derange more or less this natural and most advantageous distribution of stock. But those which concern

Is that all there is to it?

One minor note: When discussing the continuum hypothesis, Suber refers to ZF (without the axiom of choice) as "the closest thing we have to 'standard' set theory". However, he implicitly uses the axiom of choice, or at least the axiom of dependent choice (I didn't really read enough to see whether there are other uses); without this you can't prove that aleph_0 is the smallest infinite cardinal. So there is a mismatch here; the implicit background this text is assuming seems to be more ZFC than ZF.