Cardinal_and_Ordinal_Numbers
Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers
1958 book by Wacław Sierpiński
Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers is a book on transfinite numbers, by Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński. It was published in 1958 by Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, as volume 34 of the series Monografie Matematyczne of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1][2] Sierpiński wrote on the same topic earlier, in his 1928 book Leçons sur les nombres transfinis, but his 1958 book on the topic was completely rewritten and significantly longer.[1] A second edition of Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers was published in 1965.[2][3]