Author : Geoffrey Hunter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973-06-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0520023560
Metalogic by Geoffrey Hunter Pdf
This work makes available to readers without specialized training in mathematics complete proofs of the fundamental metatheorems of standard (i.e., basically truth-functional) first order logic. Included is a complete proof, accessible to non-mathematicians, of the undecidability of first order logic, the most important fact about logic to emerge from the work of the last half-century. Hunter explains concepts of mathematics and set theory along the way for the benefit of non-mathematicians. He also provides ample exercises with comprehensive answers.