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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821982903321

Autore

Gill R. R. Rockingham

Titolo

Deducibility and Decidability / / by R. R. Rockingham Gill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, , [2002]

©1990

ISBN

1-134-98997-0

1-134-98998-9

1-280-11041-4

0-203-01509-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

160

511.3

Soggetti

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Decidability (Mathematical logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-155) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Natural Numbers and their Conventional Ordering; Addition, Multiplication and Exponentiation; The Theory of -Forms; Effectiveness; Recursively Defined Predicates; The 'Arithmetization of Syntax'; Diagonalization; GOdel's Theorems, and their Relatives; The Limits of Representability; The Arithmetical Hierarchy; Envoi; Appendix: Terminological Matters; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the results of these thinkers in a newly unified manner and displays their significance for the philosophy of mathematics.