Smullyan, Raymond M.,

A beginner's guide to mathematical logic / Raymond M. Smullyan. - Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2014 - iii, 284 pages ; 24 cm. - Dover books on mathematics .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.

Written by a creative master of mathematical logic, this introductory text combines stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic. Author Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts. He highlights each subject with inventive explanations and unique problems. Smullyan's accessible narrative provides memorable examples of concepts related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, incompleteness theorems, and incompleteness proofs. Additional topics include undecidability, combinatoric logic, and recursion theory. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses, this book will also amuse and enlighten mathematically minded readers--

9780486492377 (pbk.) 0486492370 (pbk.)

2014395758

GBB412736 bnb

016620830 Uk


Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

QA9.A1 / Sm8 2014

511.3