Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic / Edition 1

ISBN-13:	9780520023567
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/26/1973
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	231,743
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

This work makes available to readers without specialized training in mathematics complete proofs of the fundamental metatheorems of standard (i.e., basically truth-functional) first order logic. Included is a complete proof, accessible to non-mathematicians, of the undecidability of first order logic, the most important fact about logic to emerge from the work of the last half-century.Hunter explains concepts of mathematics and set theory along the way for the benefit of non-mathematicians. He also provides ample exercises with comprehensive answers.