Recursion Theory for Metamathematics

Zusatztext thanks to the virtual lack or prerequisites and the detailed! easy-to-follow proofs! Recursion Theory for Metamathematics is highly accessible to beginning logicians ... There is much! both in results and in methods! that will be of interest to a variety of readers. Klappentext This work is a sequel to the author's Godel's Incompleteness Theorems! though it can be read independently by anyone familiar with Godel's incompleteness theorem for Peano arithmetic. The book deals mainly with those aspects of recursion theory that have applications to the metamathematics of incompleteness! undecidability! and related topics. It is both an introduction to the theory and a presentation of new results in the field. Zusammenfassung In 1931, Princeton mathematician Kurt Godel startled the scientific world with his 'Theorem of Undecidability', which showed that some statements in mathematics are inherently 'undecidable'. This volume of the 'Oxford Logic Guides' is a sequel to Smullyan's Godel's 'Incompleteness Theorems' (Oxford Logic Guides No. 19, 1992).

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• Authors: Raymond M. Smullyan, Raymond M. (Professor of Philosophy Smullyan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.1993
• EAN: 9780195082326
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508232-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Oxford Logic Guides; Oxford Logic Guides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles; MATHEMATICS / Logic, Mathematical logic