Introduction to Mathematical Logic

Mendelson, E.

ISBN 10: 0442053002 ISBN 13: 9780442053000

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1964

Synopsis

From Dust jacket. This book is ideally suited for teaching a compact course in mathematical logic and offers a rapid, concise and rigorous survey of the field. It is designed specifically for those students and mathematicians who, not knowing much logic and not intending to devote a great deal of time to it, want to become acquainted with the important results of modern logic, such as Godel's theorems, Church's theorem, undecidable theories, and consistency of the axiom of choice.

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Review

Nearly forty years after it was published (1964), Elliot Mendelson's Introduction to Mathematical Logic still remains the best textbook on the principle topics of this subject...I have used Mendelson's book to teach a one-semester course to advanced undergraduate and graduate students with great success.
- Alan Berger

In my work as a math teacher, researcher, author and journal editor, I often encounter problems with a logical component. When that need arises, my first choice of reference is always this book. It is the most concise and readable introductory text I have ever encountered and it is a rare occasion when I fail to find the background material needed to solve the problem. It is also an excellent source of problems and I have pulled the ideas for many test questions from it over the years.
-Charles Ashbacher

I was sufficiently fortunate to have taken Professor Emeritus Mendelson's famous logic course at Queens College, the City University of New York, just two semesters before his retirement. I was, and continue to be, astonished by Dr. Mendelson's precise yet easy style, and the beautifully efficient organization of the subjects. Everything from the expository prose to the system of notational conventions has been carefully thought through so as to make the book both very substantive and very readable. In my opinion, it's the best introduction to serious mathematical logic currently on the market, and thanks to the genius of its author, it is likely to remain so for a long time. The buyer will not be disappointed.
-Joseph Jay Stern

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0442053002
• ISBN 13: 9780442053000
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1