Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic

Hunter, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520023560 ISBN 13: 9780520023567

Verlag: University of California Press, 1996

Book by Hunter Geoffrey

Críticas:

"A remarkable book, in a class by itself among logic books. It has the ideal combination of readability, thoroughness, and preciseness. . . . Recommended not only as a first course text, but also as painless, indeed pleasurable reading."--"Computing Reviews

Reseña del editor:

This work makes available to readers without specialized training in mathematics complete proofs of the fundamental metatheorems of standard (i.e., basically truth-functional) first order logic. Included is a complete proof, accessible to non-mathematicians, of the undecidability of first order logic, the most important fact about logic to emerge from the work of the last half-century. Hunter explains concepts of mathematics and set theory along the way for the benefit of non-mathematicians. He also provides ample exercises with comprehensive answers.