Bilangan ordinal dalam teori himpunan adalah jenis tatanan dari suatu himpunan yang teratur baik. Biasanya diidentifikasi dengan himpunan transitif hereditari. Bilangan ordinal merupakan perluasan bilangan asli, berbeda dengan integer dan dengan bilangan kardinal. Sebagaimana jenis bilangan lain, bilangan ordinal dapat dijumlahkan, dikalikan, dan dipangkatkan.
^Thorough introductions are given by Levy (1979) and Jech (2003).
^Hallett, Michael (1979), "Towards a theory of mathematical research programmes. I", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 30 (1): 1–25, doi:10.1093/bjps/30.1.1, MR0532548. See the footnote on p. 12.
Pustaka
Cantor, G., (1897), Beitrage zur Begrundung der transfiniten Mengenlehre. II (tr.: Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers II), Mathematische Annalen 49, 207-246 English translation.
Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. "Cantor's Ordinal Numbers." In The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 266–267 and 274, 1996.
Hamilton, A. G. (1982), Numbers, Sets, and Axioms : the Apparatus of Mathematics, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN0-521-24509-5 See Ch. 6, "Ordinal and cardinal numbers"
Kanamori, A., Set Theory from Cantor to Cohen, to appear in: Andrew Irvine and John H. Woods (editors), The Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, volume 4, Mathematics, Cambridge University Press.
Jech, Thomas (2003), Set Theory, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag
Sierpiński, W. (1965). Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers (2nd ed.). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Also defines ordinal operations in terms of the Cantor Normal Form.
von Neumann, Johann (1923), "Zur Einführung der trasfiniten Zahlen", Acta litterarum ac scientiarum Ragiae Universitatis Hungaricae Francisco-Josephinae, Sectio scientiarum mathematicarum, 1: 199–208, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2014-12-18, diakses tanggal 2014-12-18