Super-real fields : totally ordered fields with additional structure / H. Garth Dales and W. Hugh Woodin
1996, 1st edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #396998
ISBN: 0198539916
Physical description; 357 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Ordered sets and ordered groups -- 2. Ordered fields -- 3. Completions of ordered groups and fields -- 4. Algebras of continuous functions -- 5. Normability and universality -- 6. The operational calculus and the field [actual symbol not reproducible] -- 7. Examples -- 8. Non-standard structures for super-real fields and the gap theorem -- 9. [actual symbol not reproducible] as a hyper-real field -- 10. Models and weak Cauchy completeness -- 11. Rigid fields and solid structures -- 12. Open questions. Subjects; Ordered fields. Algebraic topology. Mathematics.
Price: €195.00