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Daniel Cunningham, professor of mathematics, has published his latest book, Set Theory: A First Course (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The basic facts about abstract sets—relations, functions, numbers, cardinality, transfinite recursion, the axiom of choice, and the ordinal—are covered in this book and are developed within the framework of axiomatic set theory. Cambridge University Press is the second-largest university press in existence and is the world's oldest publishing house. Its mission is to disseminate "knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence."