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Daniel Cunningham, professor of mathematics, has signed a contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) to publish his latest book, Set Theory: A First Course. The basic facts about abstract sets—relations, functions, numbers, cardinality, transfinite recursion, the axiom of choice, and ordinals—are covered in this book and are developed within the framework of axiomatic set theory. CUP is the second-largest university press in existence and is the world's oldest publishing house. Its mission is to "to further the university’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence."