Enumerabilidade e não enumerabilidade de conjuntos: uma abordagem para o ensino básico

Abstract

In this dissertation we discuss briefly some issues quickly treated during the undergraduate course such as countable and uncountable sets, cardinality and other related subjects. We will present a brief historical review of the facts that gave rise to these problems, as well as people who have developed knowledge on these issues. The purpose of this report is succinctly present a direction to the Basic Education teachers for their classes, giving the opportunity to teachers to have more confidence when working with numerical sets and functions on these sets. It will also be used as a motivational element to the theoretical approach, or this associated with the problems that gave rise to such issues, both for teachers, and for students and scholars interested, because these are curious and intriguing subjects for those which enjoy studying mathematics of such subjects that are, of some kind, advanced or abstract. Among others, we can assign the comparison of cardinality of infinite sets, demonstrating that sets of racional numbers and the algebraic numbers are countable, and the real numbers and the transcendental numbers are uncountable, and besides, we show the cardinality of other interesting sets that are of great value to research in modern mathematics. Thus we think we are contributing to the improvement of teachers and students of Basic Education.