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An Introduction to Mathematical Logic Reprint Edition
Author(s): Richard E. Hodel (Author)
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Publication Date: February 20, 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- ISBN-10: 0486497852
- ISBN-13: 9780486497853
Book Description
Widely praised for its clarity and thorough coverage, this comprehensive overview of mathematical logic is suitable for readers of many different backgrounds. Designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics, the treatment also contains much of interest to advanced students in computer science and philosophy.
An introductory section prepares readers for successive chapters on propositional logic and first-order languages and logic. Subsequent chapters shift in emphasis from an approach to logic from a mathematical point of view to the interplay between mathematics and logic. Topics include the theorems of Gödel, Church, and Tarski on incompleteness, undecidability, and indefinability; a rigorous treatment of recursive functions and recursive relations; computability theory; and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. Numerous exercises appear throughout the text, and an appendix offers helpful background on number theory.
An introductory section prepares readers for successive chapters on propositional logic and first-order languages and logic. Subsequent chapters shift in emphasis from an approach to logic from a mathematical point of view to the interplay between mathematics and logic. Topics include the theorems of Gödel, Church, and Tarski on incompleteness, undecidability, and indefinability; a rigorous treatment of recursive functions and recursive relations; computability theory; and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. Numerous exercises appear throughout the text, and an appendix offers helpful background on number theory.
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Widely praised for its clarity and thorough coverage, this comprehensive overview of mathematical logic is suitable for readers of many different backgrounds. Designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics, the treatment also contains much of interest to advanced students in computer science and philosophy.
An introductory section prepares readers for successive chapters on propositional logic and first-order languages and logic. Subsequent chapters shift in emphasis from an approach to logic from a mathematical point of view to the interplay between mathematics and logic. Topics include the theorems of Gödel, Church, and Tarski on incompleteness, undecidability, and indefinability; a rigorous treatment of recursive functions and recursive relations; computability theory; and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. Numerous exercises appear throughout the text, and an appendix offers helpful background on number theory.
Dover (2013) republication of the edition published by PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1995.
See every Dover book in print at
www.doverpublications.com
An introductory section prepares readers for successive chapters on propositional logic and first-order languages and logic. Subsequent chapters shift in emphasis from an approach to logic from a mathematical point of view to the interplay between mathematics and logic. Topics include the theorems of Gödel, Church, and Tarski on incompleteness, undecidability, and indefinability; a rigorous treatment of recursive functions and recursive relations; computability theory; and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. Numerous exercises appear throughout the text, and an appendix offers helpful background on number theory.
Dover (2013) republication of the edition published by PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1995.
See every Dover book in print at
www.doverpublications.com
About the Author
Richard E. Hodel is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University.
