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Review title: Disagreement !
Product review: It's really difficult to share the overwhelming enthousiasm shown in the other reviews : the author's treatment of functions and of recursive definitions is a pure indigestion... One wonders what beautiful book it could have been if written by true didactically-talented authors such as Gauss, Hardy, Apostol, Tarski, Coxeter, Courant, Kline, Peter Smith, Greenberg, Russsell (except for the Principia, his crowning example of unreadable masterpiece), Quine, Smullyan...I'm painfully trying to get to the end of Suppes's cascade of definitions, theorems, definitions... requiring just as much of a cascade of annotations to clarify his text !On the thin positive side, Suppes' book is a little better than another, highly constipated book on the same subject i.e; Potter's "Set theory and its philosophy"...
