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Author Boolos, George.

Title Computability and logic / George S. Boolos, Richard C. Jeffrey
Edition Third edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989

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 W'PONDS  511.3 Boo 1989  AVAILABLE
Description x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Preface to the third edition -- 1. Enumerability -- 2. Diagonalization -- 3. Turing machines -- 4. Uncomputability via the busy beaver problem -- 5. Uncomputability via diagonalization -- 6. Abacus computable functions are Turing computable -- 7. Recursive functions are abacus computable -- 8. Turing computable functions are recursive -- 9. First-order logic revisited -- 10. First-order logic is undecidable -- 11. First-order logic formalized: derivations and soundness -- 12. Completeness of the formalization: compactness -- 13. The Skolem-Lw̲enheim theorem -- 14. Representability in Q -- 15. Undecidability, indefinability and incompleteness -- 16. Provability predicates and the unprovability of consistency -- 17. Non-standard models of arithmetic -- 18. Second-order logic -- 19. On defining arithmetical truth -- 20. Definability arithmetic and forcing -- 21. The decidability of arithmetic with addition, but not multiplication -- 22. Dynadic logic is undecidable: 'eliminating' names and function symbols -- 23. The Craig interpolation lemma -- 24. Two applications of Craig's lemma -- 25. Monadic versus dyadic logic -- 26. Ramsey's theorem -- 27. Provability considered modal-logically -- 28. Undecidable sentences -- 29. Non-standard models of Z are not recursive -- Index
Analysis Mathematical logic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computable functions.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Recursive functions.
Author Jeffrey, Richard C.
LC no. 89032584
ISBN 052138026X
0521389232 (paperback)