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Modal Logic
Author(s): Patrick Blackburn (Author), Maarten de Rijke (Author), Yde Venema (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: Aug. 22 2002
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 578 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521527147
- ISBN-13: 9780521527149
Book Description
This modern, advanced textbook reviews modal logic, a field which caught the attention of computer scientists in the late 1970's. The development is mathematical; prior acquaintance with first-order logic and its semantics is assumed, and familiarity with the basic mathematical notions of set theory is required. The authors focus on the use of modal languages as tools to analyze the properties of relational structures, including their algorithmic and algebraic aspects. Applications to issues in logic and computer science such as completeness, computability and complexity are considered.
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"This book is undoubtedly going to be the definative book on modal logic for years to come." Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
Book Description
A 2001 graduate text on modal logic, a field which has caught the attention of computer scientists, economists and computational linguists.
