A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic

Raymond M. Smullyan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2014
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-486-49237-7 (ISBN)

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Combining stories of great writers and philosophers with quotations and riddles, this completely original text for first courses in mathematical logic examines problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, and other topics. 2013 edition.

Combining stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic, this new textbook for first courses in mathematical logic was written by the subject's creative master. Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts with creative explanations and unique problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, recursion theory, and other topics.

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he is also a concert pianist and a magician. He is the author of over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.

Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
ISBN-10	0-486-49237-0 / 0486492370
ISBN-13	978-0-486-49237-7 / 9780486492377
Zustand	Neuware