Matrix Logic: Theory and Applications - Hardcover

Stern, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444704329 ISBN 13: 9780444704320

Publisher: North Holland, 1988

Synopsis

In this pioneering work, the author develops a fundamental formulation of logic in terms of theory of matrices and vector spaces. The discovery of matrix logic represents a landmark in the further formalization of logic. For the first time the power of direct mathematical computation is applied to the whole set of logic operations, allowing the derivation of both the classical and modal logics from the same formal base. The new formalism allows the author to enlarge the alphabet of the truth-values with negative logic antivalues and to link matrix logic descriptions with the Dirac formulation of quantum theory - a result having fundamental implications and repercussions for science as a whole. As a unified language which permits a logical examination of the underlying phenomena of quantum field theory and vice versa, matrix logic opens new avenues for the study of fundamental interactions and gives rise to a revolutionary conclusion that physics as such can be viewed and studied as a logic in the fundamental sense. Finally, modelling itself on exact sciences, matrix logic does not refute the classical logic but instead incorporates it as a special deterministic limit.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0444704329
• ISBN 13: 9780444704320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220