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

ISBN-13: 9780520023567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 302 str.

Geoffrey Hunter

Opis

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.