Title: The ideal introductory book on set theory
Product review: In recent months, I read (at least in part) about ten books on set theory, of different levels and styles. Goldrei's book is by far the best on my list. Goldrei has the talent of presenting a fairly difficult and abstract material in a friendly style, with abundant explanations, solved exercises, illustrations, and illuminating comments. I can highly recommend this book as a first reading on set theory, whether for self-study or as a supplementary text for a course on the subject. For the interested readers of this review, here is how I rank some of the other books I've read: Stoll is definitely a second, then Suppes (which goes deeper than both Goldrei and Stoll, but in my opinion is poorly organized and suffers from nonstandard and funny-looking notations), followed by Halmos, Machover, and a few more. And last and least, the incomprehensible "book" by Vaught.
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