Logical Methods

. Ed(s): Crossley, John N.; Remmel, Jeffrey B.; Shore, Richard A.; Sweedler, Moss E.

ISBN 10: 0817636900 / ISBN 13: 9780817636906

Published by Birkhauser Boston Inc, 1994

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Anil Nerode, Director of the Mathematics Institute at Cornell, USA, is one of the most influential logicians in the world. This volume, published in his honour, contains much new and significant work. The papers in general arose from a symposium held in his honour at Cornell University. Editor(s): Crossley, John N.; Remmel, Jeffrey B.; Shore, Richard A.; Sweedler, Moss E. Series: Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic. Num Pages: 816 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBCD; UYA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1598. . 1994. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logical Methods
• Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Inc
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817636900
• ISBN 13: 9780817636906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The twenty-six papers in this volume reflect the wide and still expanding range of Anil Nerode's work. A conference on Logical Methods was held in honor of Nerode's sixtieth birthday (4 June 1992) at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University, 1-3 June 1992. Some of the conference papers are here, but others are from students, co-workers and other colleagues. The intention of the conference was to look forward, and to see the directions currently being pursued, in the development of work by, or with, Nerode. Here is a brief summary of the contents of this book. We give a retrospective view of Nerode's work. A number of specific areas are readily discerned: recursive equivalence types, recursive algebra and model theory, the theory of Turing degrees and r.e. sets, polynomial-time computability and computer science. Nerode began with automata theory and has also taken a keen interest in the history of mathematics. All these areas are represented. The one area missing is Nerode's applied mathematical work relating to the environment. Kozen's paper builds on Nerode's early work on automata. Recursive equivalence types are covered by Dekker and Barback, the latter using directly a fundamental metatheorem of Nerode. Recursive algebra is treated by Ge & Richards (group representations). Recursive model theory is the subject of papers by Hird, Moses, and Khoussainov & Dadajanov, while a combinatorial problem in recursive model theory is discussed in Cherlin & Martin's paper. Cenzer presents a paper on recursive dynamics.