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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
This small book grew out of a desire to perceive the hierarchy of sets as an algebraic structure of a simple kind. We began our work on the hierarchy and on small maps around 1988, simultaneously with related work on open maps (see our (1990), (1994) in the bibliography). The main results were announced in our (1991), and presented in several lectures between 1990 and 1993.
We are most grateful to J. Bénabou, M. Jidbladze and J. van Oosten for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this book, and to Elise Goeree for the careful typing of the manuscript.
Our work would not have been possible without the support for many mutual visits, by the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
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