Part I: Explanatory Treatment1. Counting2. Whole Numbers3. The Laws of Arithmetic4. Fractions5. Negative Numbers6. Fields7. Irrational Numbers8. Powers9. Complex Numbers10. Verification of the Axioms11.
Alternative TreatmentsPart II: Systematic Treatment1. Whole Numbers2. Hemigroups and Groups3. Integers4. Fields5. Rational Numbers6. Ordered Fields7. The Order-Relation for Rationals8. Exponentiation9.
Cauchy Numbers10. Real Numbers11. Complex NumbersBibliographyKey to the ExercisesIndex