Download or read book Recursion Theoretic Hierarchies written by Peter G. Hinman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory set out in this book results from the meeting of descriptive set theory and recursion theory.
Download or read book Higher Recursion Theory written by Gerald E. Sacks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This almost self-contained introduction to higher recursion theory is essential reading for all researchers in the field.
Download or read book Recursion Theoretic Hierarchies written by P. G. Hinman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-05-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a recent meeting of logicians, one speaker complained - mainly, but perhaps not wholly, in jest - that logic is tightly controlled by a small group of people (the cabal) who exercise careful control over the release of new ideas to the general public (especially students) and indeed suppress some material com pletely. The situation is surely not so grim as this, but any potential reader of this book must have felt at some time that there is at least a minor conspiracy to keep new ideas inaccessible until the "insiders" have worked them over thoroughly. In particular he might well feel this way about the whole subject of Generalized Recursion Theory, which developed in the second half of the 1960s. The basic definitions and results on recursion involving functionals of higher type appeared in the monumental but extremely difficult paper Kleene [1959] and [1963]. Gandy [1967] gave another presentation ab initio, but the planned part II of this paper, as well as several other major advances in the subject, never appeared in print. For the theory of recursion on ordinals, the situation was even worse. Much of the basic material had appeared only in the abstracts Kripke [1964, 1964a], and although certain parts of the theory had been worked out in papers such as Kreisel-Sacks [1965] and Sacks [1967], there was no reasonably complete account of the basic facts of the subject in print.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Mathematical Logic written by Peter G. Hinman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory graduate text covers modern mathematical logic from propositional, first-order and infinitary logic and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to extensive introductions to set theory, model theory and recursion (computability) theory. Based on the author's more than 35 years of teaching experience, the book develops students' intuition by presenting complex ideas in the simplest context for which they make sense. The book is appropriate for use as a classroom text, for self-study, and as a reference on the state of modern logic.
Download or read book Handbook of Computability Theory written by E.R. Griffor and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this volume all have their own level of presentation. The topics have been chosen based on the active research interest associated with them. Since the interest in some topics is older than that in others, some presentations contain fundamental definitions and basic results while others relate very little of the elementary theory behind them and aim directly toward an exposition of advanced results. Presentations of the latter sort are in some cases restricted to a short survey of recent results (due to the complexity of the methods and proofs themselves). Hence the variation in level of presentation from chapter to chapter only reflects the conceptual situation itself. One example of this is the collective efforts to develop an acceptable theory of computation on the real numbers. The last two decades has seen at least two new definitions of effective operations on the real numbers.
Download or read book Set Theory and Hierarchy Theory V written by A. Lachlan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formal Properties of Finite Automata and Applications written by Jean E. Pin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-10-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains the proceedings of the 16th Spring School on Theoretical Computer Science held in Ramatuelle, France, in May 1988. It is a unique combination of research level articles on various aspects of the theory of finite automata and its applications. Advances made in the last five years on the mathematical foundations form the first part of the book. The second part is devoted to the important problems of the theory including star-height, concatenation hierarchies, and connections with logic and word problems. The last part presents a large variety of possible applications: number theory, distributed systems, algorithms on strings, theory of codes, complexity of boolean circuits and others.
Download or read book Ways of Proof Theory written by Ralf Schindler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the retirement of Wolfram Pohlers the Institut für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung of the University of Münster organized a colloquium and a workshop which took place July 17 – 19, 2008. This event brought together proof theorists from many parts of the world who have been acting as teachers, students and collaborators of Wolfram Pohlers and who have been shaping the field of proof theory over the years. The present volume collects papers by the speakers of the colloquium and workshop; and they produce a documentation of the state of the art of contemporary proof theory.
Download or read book Handbook of Philosophical Logic written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over 15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the first edition as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic'. We are confident that the second edition will prove to be just as good. ! The first edition was the second handbook published for the logic commu nity. It followed the North Holland one volume Handbook of Mathematical Logic, published in 1977, edited by the late Jon Barwise, The four volume Handbook of Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial intelligence circles. These areas were under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the modelling of human activity and organisa tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other.
Download or read book Lectures on Infinitary Model Theory written by David Marker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infinitary logic, the logic of languages with infinitely long conjunctions, plays an important role in model theory, recursion theory and descriptive set theory. This book is the first modern introduction to the subject in forty years, and will bring students and researchers in all areas of mathematical logic up to the threshold of modern research. The classical topics of back-and-forth systems, model existence techniques, indiscernibles and end extensions are covered before more modern topics are surveyed. Zilber's categoricity theorem for quasiminimal excellent classes is proved and an application is given to covers of multiplicative groups. Infinitary methods are also used to study uncountable models of counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture, and effective aspects of infinitary model theory are reviewed, including an introduction to Montalbán's recent work on spectra of Vaught counterexamples. Self-contained introductions to effective descriptive set theory and hyperarithmetic theory are provided, as is an appendix on admissible model theory.
Download or read book Twenty Years of Theoretical and Practical Synergies written by Ludovic Levy Patey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sets And Computations written by Sy-david Friedman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore from 30 March until 30 April 2015. This special collection reports on important and recent interactions between the fields of Set Theory and Computation Theory. This includes the new research areas of computational complexity in set theory, randomness beyond the hyperarithmetic, powerful extensions of Goodstein's theorem and the capturing of large fragments of set theory via elementary-recursive structures.Further chapters are concerned with central topics within Set Theory, including cardinal characteristics, Fraïssé limits, the set-generic multiverse and the study of ideals. Also Computation Theory, which includes computable group theory and measure-theoretic aspects of Hilbert's Tenth Problem. A volume of this broad scope will appeal to a wide spectrum of researchers in mathematical logic.
Download or read book Recursive Model Theory written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recursive Model Theory
Download or read book Recursively Enumerable Sets and Degrees written by Robert I. Soare and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..."The book, written by one of the main researchers on the field, gives a complete account of the theory of r.e. degrees. .... The definitions, results and proofs are always clearly motivated and explained before the formal presentation; the proofs are described with remarkable clarity and conciseness. The book is highly recommended to everyone interested in logic. It also provides a useful background to computer scientists, in particular to theoretical computer scientists." Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Ungarn 1988 ..."The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the main results and to the intricacies of the current theory for the recurseively enumerable sets and degrees. The author has managed to give a coherent exposition of a rather complex and messy area of logic, and with this book degree-theory is far more accessible to students and logicians in other fields than it used to be." Zentralblatt für Mathematik, 623.1988
Download or read book Handbook of Epistemology written by I. Niiniluoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemology or theory of knowledge has always been one of the most important -if not the most important -field of philosophy. New arguments are constantly brought to bear on old views, new variants are marshalled to revive ancient stands, new concepts and distinctions increase the sophistication of epistemogical theories. There are a great many excellent textbooks, monographs as well as anthologies consisting of articles in epistemology. Similarly, there are useful philosophical dictionaries which contain a great number of relatively short entries, and general philosophical handbooks which also touch epistemological issues. This volume of 27 essays grew out from the interest to see a handbook which is devoted entirely to the historical roots and systematic development of theory of knowledge. It is not intended to compete but to supplement the already existing literature. It aims at giving both beginners and more advanced students as well as professionals in epistemology and other areas of philosophy an overview of the central problems and solutions of epistemology. The essays are self-contained and stil often rather extensive discussions of the chosen aspects of knowledge. The contributions presuppose very little familiarity with previous literature and only a few of them require the mastery of even elementary logical notation. This, we hope, makes the volume also accessible to the philosophically interested wider audience. The contributors were asked to provide substantial, up-to-date, self-contained and balanced surveys of the various subareas and more specific topics of epistemology, with reference to literature.
Download or read book Lectures in Logic and Set Theory Volume 1 Mathematical Logic written by George Tourlakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work bridges the gap between introductory expositions of logic or set theory on one hand, and the research literature on the other. It can be used as a text in an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in mathematics, computer science, or philosophy. The volumes are written in a user-friendly conversational lecture style that makes them equally effective for self-study or class use. Volume 1 includes formal proof techniques, a section on applications of compactness (including nonstandard analysis), a generous dose of computability and its relation to the incompleteness phenomenon, and the first presentation of a complete proof of Godel's 2nd incompleteness since Hilbert and Bernay's Grundlagen theorem.
Download or read book Handbook of Mathematical Logic written by J. Barwise and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1982-03-01 with total page 1179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook is divided into four parts: model theory, set theory, recursion theory and proof theory. Each of the four parts begins with a short guide to the chapters that follow. Each chapter is written for non-specialists in the field in question. Mathematicians will find that this book provides them with a unique opportunity to apprise themselves of developments in areas other than their own.