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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956106103321

Autore

Ebbinghaus Heinz-Dieter <1939->

Titolo

Mathematical Logic / / by H.-D. Ebbinghaus, J. Flum, Wolfgang Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1994

ISBN

1-4757-2355-5

Edizione

[2nd ed. 1994.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 291 p.)

Collana

Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, , 2197-5604

Classificazione

03-01

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Mathematics Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

A -- I Introduction -- II Syntax of First-Order Languages -- III Semantics of First-Order Languages -- IV A Sequent Calculus -- V The Completeness Theorem -- VI The Löwenheim-Skolem and the Compactness Theorem -- VII The Scope of First-Order Logic -- VIII Syntactic Interpretations and Normal Forms -- B -- IX Extensions of First-Order Logic -- X Limitations of the Formal Method -- XI Free Models and Logic Programming -- XII An Algebraic Characterization of Elementary Equivalence -- XIII Lindström’s Theorems -- References -- Symbol Index.

Sommario/riassunto

What is a mathematical proof? How can proofs be justified? Are there limitations to provability? To what extent can machines carry out mathe­ matical proofs? Only in this century has there been success in obtaining substantial and satisfactory answers. The present book contains a systematic discussion of these results. The investigations are centered around first-order logic. Our first goal is Godel's completeness theorem, which shows that the con­ sequence relation coincides with formal provability: By means of a calcu­ lus consisting of simple formal inference rules, one can obtain all conse­ quences of a given axiom system (and in particular, imitate all mathemat­ ical proofs). A short digression into model theory will help us to analyze the expres­ sive power of the first-order language, and it will turn out that



there are certain deficiencies. For example, the first-order language does not allow the formulation of an adequate axiom system for arithmetic or analysis. On the other hand, this difficulty can be overcome--even in the framework of first-order logic-by developing mathematics in set-theoretic terms. We explain the prerequisites from set theory necessary for this purpose and then treat the subtle relation between logic and set theory in a thorough manner.