Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine's set theory, New Foundations.

What is a number? What is infinity? What is continuity? What is order? Answers to these fundamental questions obtained by late nineteenth-century mathematicians

"José Ferreirós has written a magisterial account of the history of set theory which is panoramic, balanced, and engaging. Not only does this book synthesize