Computability: Computable Functions Logic and the Foundations of Math (Wadsworth&Brooks/Cole Mathematics Series)

Epstein, Richard .L.; Carnielli, Walter Alexandr

ISBN 10: 0534103561 / ISBN 13: 9780534103569

Published by Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1989

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Title: Computability: Computable Functions Logic ...

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

This book should be of interest to intermediate mathematics undergraduates; postgraduates in theoretical computer science/philosophy of mathematics.

About the Author:

Richard L. Epstein received his B.A. summa cum laude at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, before an extensive career teaching mathematics and philosophy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He also owned and managed the Dog & Duck Coffee House. He is the author of the series of research texts THE SEMANTIC FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC as well as CRITICAL THINKING and FIVE WAYS OF SAYING "THEREFORE". Currently he is head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum in Socorro, New Mexico.
Walter A. Carnielli received his Ph.D. at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics and logic at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Professor of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics at the Department of Philosophy of the State University of Campinas, with almost a hundred publications in many-valued logics, paraconsistent logics, combination of logics and combinatorics. He has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar to Germany (Munster and Bonn). Currently he is the Director of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology  and the  History of Science of the State University of Campinas. Carnielli is the Laureate for Mathematics of  the Telesio Galilei Academy of Science for 2013.