Lectures in Logic and Set Theory: Volume 1, Mathematical Logic

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.