Translated from the French, this book is an introduction to first-order model theory. Starting from scratch, it quickly reaches the essentials, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. It also introduces logic via the study of the mod
Mathematical Logic: An Introduction to Model Theory
β Scribed by A. H. Lightstone (auth.), H. B. Enderton (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 337
- Series
- Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering 9
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Before his death in March, 1976, A. H. Lightstone delivered the manuΒ script for this book to Plenum Press. Because he died before the editorial work on the manuscript was completed, I agreed (in the fall of 1976) to serve as a surrogate author and to see the project through to completion. I have changed the manuscript as little as possible, altering certain passages to correct oversights. But the alterations are minor; this is Lightstone's book. H. B. Enderton vii Preface This is a treatment of the predicate calculus in a form that serves as a foundation for nonstandard analysis. Classically, the predicates and variables of the predicate calculus are kept distinct, inasmuch as no variable is also a predicate; moreover, each predicate is assigned an order, a unique natural number that indicates the length of each tuple to which the predicate can be prefixed. These restrictions are dropped here, in order to develop a flexible, expressive language capable of exploiting the potential of nonstandard analysis. To assist the reader in grasping the basic ideas of logic, we begin in Part I by presenting the propositional calculus and statement systems. This provides a relatively simple setting in which to grapple with the someΒ times foreign ideas of mathematical logic. These ideas are repeated in Part II, where the predicate calculus and semantical systems are studied.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Statement Systems....Pages 5-9
Propositional Calculus....Pages 11-29
Provable Wffs....Pages 31-48
Substitution Theorems....Pages 49-56
Duality....Pages 57-73
Deducibility and Completeness....Pages 75-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Semantical Systems....Pages 107-128
Predicate Calculus....Pages 129-151
Provable Wffs....Pages 153-171
Substitution Theorems....Pages 173-182
Duality....Pages 183-200
Deducibility and Completeness....Pages 201-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Nonstandard Analysis....Pages 227-262
Normal Semantical Systems....Pages 263-275
Axiomatic Set Theory....Pages 277-313
Complete Theories....Pages 315-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-338
β¦ Subjects
Mathematical Logic and Foundations
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Translated from the French, this book is an introduction to first-order model theory. Starting from scratch, it quickly reaches the essentials, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. It also introduces logic via the study of the mod
<P>Translated from the French, this book is an introduction to first-order model theory. Starting from scratch, it quickly reaches the essentials, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. It also introduces logic via the study of the
<p>This book is intended as an undergraduate senior level or beginning graduate level text for mathematical logic. There are virtually no prereΒ quisites, although a familiarity with notions encountered in a beginning course in abstract algebra such as groups, rings, and fields will be useful in pro