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Non-Wellfoundedness and Foundations

Open prathyvsh opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

A curation on some reads in the direction of non-wellfoundedness with emphasis on their significance for mathematical foundations.

1/ Sets as Graphs

Alexander Ioan Tomescu (2011) https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/tomescu/PhDThesis-AT.pdf A thesis addressing how to see sets as graphs.

2/ Digraphs in terms of set theory

? https://math.unm.edu/~loring/links/graph_s05/basics.pdf

A short paper showing how to visualize sets as directed graphs

3/ Non-wellfounded sets in HoTT

Håkon Robbestad Gylterud June 21, 2020 https://hott-uf.github.io/2020/HoTTUF_2020_paper_19.pdf

Work addressing the significance of non-wellfounded sets in homotopy type theory

4/ Hypersolver: A Graphical Tool for Commonsense Set Theory

Müjdat Pakkan, Varol Akman (1995) https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.53.4540&rep=rep1&type=pdf

A neat looking tool for representing hypersets and sets

5/ Predicativity, Circularity, and Anti-Foundation

M. Rathjen (2008) https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~rathjen/russelle.pdf

An attempt to develop the anti-foundational axiom from a predicative vantage point

6/ Mapping sets and hypersets into numbers

Giovanna D’Agostino, Eugenio G. Omodeo, Alberto Policriti, Alexandru I. Tomescu (2015)

https://air.uniud.it/retrieve/handle/11390/1069229/40032/DOPT.pdf

A paper showing how sets and hypersets can give a representation for numbers

7/ Non-Wellfounded Set Theory and the Circular Semantics of Semantic Networks

Robin K. Hill (1995)

Applies non-wellfounded set theory for semantic knowledge representation

8/ On non-wellfounded multisets: Scott Collapse in the Multiworld

Giovanna D’Agostino, Albert Visser https://festschriften.illc.uva.nl/j50/contribs/dagostinovisser/dagostinovisser.pdf

Uses Scott bisimulation to define and describe the theory of non-wellfounded multisets

9/ A Cook’s Tour of Non-Well-Founded Sets

Samson Abramsky

A look at finitary non-wellfounded sets from different vantage points: process models, metric approximation, topology and the Vietoris construction, modal logic and Stone duality, and domain theory.

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/samson.abramsky/dg05.pdf

10/ Concepts of Set (Slides)

Luca Incurvati https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/u.endriss/teaching/lolaco/2014/slides/Incurvati.pdf

Set of slides on the conception of set from Luca Incurvati. Also the author of Graph conceptions of set.

prathyvsh avatar Dec 10 '21 23:12 prathyvsh