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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. Real, Cardinal, and Ordinal Numbers
Author : William P. Ziemer
Published in: Modern Real Analysis
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
A brief development of the construction of the real numbers is given in terms of equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers. This construction is based on the assumption that properties of the rational numbers, including the integers, are known.