Introduction to Metamathematics

Introduction to Metamathematics
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Stephen Cole Kleene was one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century and this book is the influential textbook he wrote to teach the subject to the next generation. It was first published in 1952, some twenty years after the publication of GÃ¶del's paper on the incompleteness of arithmetic, which marked, if not the beginning of modern logic, at least a turning point after which â€œnothing was ever the same.â€ Kleene was an important figure in logic, and lived a long full life of scholarship and teaching. The 1930s was a time of creativity and ferment in the subject, when the notion of â€œcomputableâ€ moved from the realm of philosophical speculation to the realm of science. This was accomplished by the work of Kurt GÃ¶de1, Alan Turing, and Alonzo Church, who gave three apparently different precise definitions of â€œcomputableâ€. When they all turned out to be equivalent, there was a collective realization that this was indeed the â€œright notionâ€. Kleene played a key role in this process. One could say that he was â€œthere at the beginningâ€ of modern logic. He showed the equivalence of lambda calculus with Turing machines and with GÃ¶del's recursion equations, and developed the modern machinery of partial recursive functions. This textbook played an invaluable part in educating the logicians of the present. It played an important role in their own logical education.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Ishi Press
Manufacturer Ishi Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 380863
Model 380863
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780923891572
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Ishi Press
Manufacturer	Ishi Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	380863
Model	380863
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780923891572
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Introduction to Metamathematics

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