Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century - The Emergence of Classical Logic

Informationen zum Autor Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic. Zusammenfassung Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights and points of view.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dov M. Gabbay (Editor), Akihiro Kanamori (Editor), John Woods (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2012
• EAN: 9780444516213
• ISBN: 978-0-444-51621-3
• No. of pages: 880
• Series: Handbook of the History of Logic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: logic