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Comprehensive and self-contained text examines the axiom's relative strengths and consequences, including its consistency and independence, relation to permutation models, and examples and counterexamples of its use. 1973 edition.

Formulas and classes.- Axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel.- Ordinal numbers.- Cardinal numbers.- Finite sets.- Real numbers.- Axiom of choice.- Cardinal arithmetic.- Axiom of regularity.- Transitive models.- Constructible sets.- Consistency of AC and GCH.- More on transitive models.- Ordinal definability.- Remarks on complete boolean algebras.- The method of forcing and boolean ¿ valued models.- Independence of the continuum hypothesis and collapsing ...

Comprehensive and self-contained text examines the axiom's relative strengths and consequences, including its consistency and independence, relation to permutation models, and examples and counterexamples of its use. 1973 edition.

In this 1987 text Professor Jech gives a unified treatment of the various forcing methods used in set theory, and presents their important applications.