Computability and Logic - Hardcover

Boolos, George S.; Jeffrey, Richard C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052138026X ISBN 13: 9780521380263

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

A text for a second course in logic for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. This third edition has been corrected and contains thoroughly revised versions of the chapters on Ramsey and provability, with new exercises provided for three other chapters. There are also two new chapters dealing with undecidable sentences and on the non-existence of non-standard recursive models of Z.

About this title

Book Description

Now in its fourth edition, this book has become a classic because of its accessibility to tudents without a mathematical background, and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course such as Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, but also a large number of optional topics from Turing's theory of computability to Ramsey's theorem. John Burgess has now enhanced the book by adding a selection of problems at the end of each chapter, and by reorganising and rewriting chapters to make them more independent of each other.

Review

'Intended for a second course in logic it gives excellent coverage of the fundamental theoretical results about logic involving computability, undecidability, axiomatization, definability, incompleteness, etc.' American Math Monthly

'... particularly appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in philosophy ... The book is written in a clear and pleasing style and avoids pedantry ... It should be an excellent text for its intended audience.' Mathematical Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052138026X
• ISBN 13: 9780521380263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 314