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Book announcement: collected works of Ernst Zermelo

Announcement:

ERNST ZERMELO, Collected Works/Gesammelte Werke
in two volumes,

edited by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Craig G. Fraser,
and Akihiro Kanamori,

published in the series of publications of the class for
mathematics and the sciences of the Heidelberger Akademie
der Wissenschaften by Springer-Verlag.

Just appeared:

Volume I:  Set Theory, Miscellanea/
Band I: Mengenlehre, Varia, xxiv + 654 pp.,

edited by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus and Akihiro Kanamori
in collaboration with Oliver Deiser, Juergen Elstrodt,
Ulrich Felgner, Michael Hallett, Albert Henrichs,
Paul B. Larson, Charles Parsons, R. Gregory Taylor,
Dirk van Dalen, and Dieter Wolke.

This first volume of the Zermelo edition focuses on Zermelo's
work in set theory and the foundations of mathematics and is
supplemented by his papers in pure mathematics. The published
papers are accompanied by selected items from Zermelo's Nachlass
and some letters. Whereas the papers span the time between
Zermelo's first encounter with set theory around 1900 in
Goettingen and the end of his mathematical research in the
mid-1930s in Freiburg, the selected items mainly stem from the
early 1930s, from a time when Zermelo's foundational views were
in growing opposition to the mainstream developments in
mathematical logic.

In order to provide access to a wider audience, the original
papers are printed face to face with English translations.
Each paper or coherent group of papers is preceded by an
introductory note which comments on contents, motivation, aims,
and influence of the paper(s) concerned and is written by an
expert in the field.

Volume II will be dedicated to Zermelo's work in the calculus
of variations, mathematical physics, and fluid dynamics.