The Logic of Provability
This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. Here it receives its first scientific application since its invention. Modal logic is concerned with the notions of necessity and possibility. What George Boolos does is to show how the concepts, techniques, and methods of modal logic shed brilliant light on the…
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Weitere Autoren: George S., Boolos
- ISBN: 978-0-521-48325-4
- EAN: 9780521483254
- Produktnummer: 9822610
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 488 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 488
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