1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456864803321

Autore

Ernest John

Titolo

A nation within a nation [[electronic resource] ] : organizing African-American communities before the Civil War / / John Ernest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, Inc., c2011

ISBN

1-283-00945-5

9786613009456

1-56663-917-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

American Ways Series

Disciplina

973.0496073

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Societies, etc - History - 19th century

African American fraternal organizations - History - 19th century

African American churches - History - 19th century

African Americans - History - 19th century

African American schools - History - 19th century

African American press - History - 19th century

African Americans - Race identity - History - 19th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 19th century

African Americans - Education - History - 19th century

Community organization - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Cities on the Hill: Organizing Communities; Chapter 2. Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, Mutual Relief; Chapter 3. "Plain and Simple Gospel"; Chapter 4. "The United Wisdom of the World"; Chapter 5. "The Collected Wisdom of Our People"; Chapter 6. Breaking "The Chains of Ignorance"; Chapter 8. Postscript; A Note on Sources; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War.



He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was not solely determined by slavery as they tried to create organizations in the hope of creating a community.</

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154754303321

Autore

Church Alonzo

Titolo

Introduction to Mathematical Logic (PMS-13), Volume 13 / / Alonzo Church

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1991

ISBN

1-4008-8145-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 pages)

Collana

Princeton Mathematical Series ; ; 13

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Propositional Calculus -- II. The Propositional Calculus (Continued) -- III. Functional Calculi of First Order -- IV. The Pure Functional Calculus of First Order -- V. Functional Calculi of Second Order -- Index of Definitions -- Index of Authors -- Errata

Sommario/riassunto

Logic is sometimes called the foundation of mathematics: the logician studies the kinds of reasoning used in the individual steps of a proof. Alonzo Church was a pioneer in the field of mathematical logic, whose contributions to number theory and the theories of algorithms and computability laid the theoretical foundations of computer science. His first Princeton book, The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion (1941), established an invaluable tool that computer scientists still use today. Even beyond the accomplishment of that book, however, his second Princeton book, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, defined its subject for a generation. Originally published in Princeton's Annals of



Mathematics Studies series, this book was revised in 1956 and reprinted a third time, in 1996, in the Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics series. Although new results in mathematical logic have been developed and other textbooks have been published, it remains, sixty years later, a basic source for understanding formal logic. Church was one of the principal founders of the Association for Symbolic Logic; he founded the Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1936 and remained an editor until 1979 At his death in 1995, Church was still regarded as the greatest mathematical logician in the world.