Prologue Chapter 1: The Prehistory of the Axiom of Choice Introduction The Origins of the Assumption The Boundary between the Finite and the Infinite Cantor's Legacy of Implicit Uses The Well-Ordering Problem and the Continuum Hypothes
Millennium Problems In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on import