Download or read book Classical Descriptive Set Theory written by Alexander Kechris and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-01-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive set theory has been one of the main areas of research in set theory for almost a century. This text presents a largely balanced approach to the subject, which combines many elements of the different traditions. It includes a wide variety of examples, more than 400 exercises, and applications, in order to illustrate the general concepts and results of the theory.