In this thesis, we study conditions not involving density which
guarantee that a given positive integer is contained in a sum of sets
of nonnegative integers. We survey the literature, give more detailed
proofs of some known theorems, develop some new theorems,
and make some conjectures.
It is well- known that a real number can be defined as an equivalence
class of fundamental rational sequences. In fact, it is also possible
to define a real number as an equivalence class of sequences of
nested closed rational intervals. This paper is devoted to the latter
case.
This thesis brings together under one cover a survey
of the history of the real number e along with a study
of the present state of its theory and calculation.
Let A and B be two subsets of the set of all non-negative
integers with 0 ε A and O ε B. The sum of the sets A and B is
the set C = A + B = {a + b: a ε A, b ε B). For n...