Popular Lectures on Mathematical Logic

Wang, Hao

ISBN 10: 0486676323 / ISBN 13: 9780486676326

Verlag: Dover Publications, 1993

Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0486676323I4N11

Inhaltsangabe:

A noted logician and philosopher addresses various forms of mathematical logic, discussing both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications. Author Hao Wang surveys the central concepts and theories of the discipline in a historical and developmental context, and then focuses on the four principal domains of contemporary mathematical logic: set theory, model theory, recursion theory and constructivism, and proof theory.
Topics include the place of problems in the development of theories of logic and logic's relation to computer science. Specific attention is given to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, predicate logic and its decision and reduction problems, constructibility and Cantor's continuum hypothesis, proof theory and Hilbert's program, hierarchies and unification, proof of the four-color problem, the Diophantine problem, the tautology problem, and many other subjects. Three helpful Appendixes conclude the text.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Hao Wang (1921–95) was a Chinese-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He taught at Harvard, Oxford, and Rockefeller University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Popular Lectures on Mathematical Logic
Verlag: Dover Publications
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket