The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886. The novel is considered to be one of the Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents: a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.
S (set theory) sets" or "the class of all ordinals" include sets from all stages of the iterative hierarchy. Hence such collections cannot be formed at any given stage, and thus cannot be sets. This section follows Boolos (1998: 91). The variables "x" and "y" range over sets, while "r", "s", and "t" range over stages. There are three primitive two-place predicates: The axioms below include a defined two-place set-stage predicate, "Bxr", which abbreviates: "Bxr" is read as “set "x" is formed before stage "r".” Identity, denoted by infix ‘=’, does not play the role in S it plays in other set theories,