Computability and Logic
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Computability and Logic is a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background. This fifth edition was first published in 2007.
John P Burgess Boeken
John P. Burgess is een professor in de systematische theologie wiens werk ingaat op de diepe verbanden tussen geloof en identiteit. Zijn schrijven onderzoekt de manieren waarop religieuze tradities en gemeenschappen zichzelf kunnen herontdekken en hervormen in een voortdurend veranderende wereld. Met een focus op theologische en spirituele dimensies probeert hij te begrijpen hoe oude geschriften en overtuigingen in de moderne context kunnen blijven resoneren en vernieuwde vitaliteit kunnen bieden.
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 (CUP, 1979). 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 most important logical discovery of the twentieth century: the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Godel and the 'self referential' sentences constructed in their proof. The book explores the effects of reinterpreting the notions of necessity and possibility to near probability and consistency. It contains the first application of quantified modal logic to formal probability, and shows the results of applying modal logic to formal provability.
