A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic

A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic
ISBN-10
0486492370
ISBN-13
9780486492377
Category
Mathematics
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2014-07-23
Publisher
Courier Corporation
Author
Raymond M. Smullyan

Description

Written by a creative master of mathematical logic, this introductory text combines stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic. Author Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts. He highlights each subject with inventive explanations and unique problems. Smullyan's accessible narrative provides memorable examples of concepts related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, incompleteness theorems, and incompleteness proofs. Additional topics include undecidability, combinatoric logic, and recursion theory. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses, this book will also amuse and enlighten mathematically minded readers. Dover (2014) original publication. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com

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