Author: P. Odifreddi
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080886596
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles. Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.
Classical Recursion Theory
Author: P. Odifreddi
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080886596
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles. Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080886596
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles. Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.
Classical Recursion Theory
Author: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles. Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles. Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.
Higher Recursion Theory
Author: Gerald E. Sacks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107168430
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This almost self-contained introduction to higher recursion theory is essential reading for all researchers in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107168430
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This almost self-contained introduction to higher recursion theory is essential reading for all researchers in the field.
A Book of Set Theory
Author: Charles C Pinter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486497089
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"This accessible approach to set theory for upper-level undergraduates poses rigorous but simple arguments. Each definition is accompanied by commentary that motivates and explains new concepts. A historical introduction is followed by discussions of classes and sets, functions, natural and cardinal numbers, the arithmetic of ordinal numbers, and related topics. 1971 edition with new material by the author"--
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486497089
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"This accessible approach to set theory for upper-level undergraduates poses rigorous but simple arguments. Each definition is accompanied by commentary that motivates and explains new concepts. A historical introduction is followed by discussions of classes and sets, functions, natural and cardinal numbers, the arithmetic of ordinal numbers, and related topics. 1971 edition with new material by the author"--
Recursive Model Theory
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080533698
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Recursive Model Theory
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080533698
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Recursive Model Theory
Set Theory for the Working Mathematician
Author: Krzysztof Ciesielski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594653
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents those methods of modern set theory most applicable to other areas of pure mathematics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594653
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents those methods of modern set theory most applicable to other areas of pure mathematics.
Introduction to Mathematical Logic
Author: Elliott Mendelson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1584888776
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Retaining all the key features of the previous editions, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Fifth Edition explores the principal topics of mathematical logic. It covers propositional logic, first-order logic, first-order number theory, axiomatic set theory, and the theory of computability. The text also discusses the major results of Godel, Church
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1584888776
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Retaining all the key features of the previous editions, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Fifth Edition explores the principal topics of mathematical logic. It covers propositional logic, first-order logic, first-order number theory, axiomatic set theory, and the theory of computability. The text also discusses the major results of Godel, Church
An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems
Author: Peter Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A clear and accessible treatment of Gödel's famous, intriguing, but much misunderstood incompleteness theorems, extensively revised in a second edition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A clear and accessible treatment of Gödel's famous, intriguing, but much misunderstood incompleteness theorems, extensively revised in a second edition.
Computability Theory
Author: Rebecca Weber
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 082187392X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
What can we compute--even with unlimited resources? Is everything within reach? Or are computations necessarily drastically limited, not just in practice, but theoretically? These questions are at the heart of computability theory. The goal of this book is to give the reader a firm grounding in the fundamentals of computability theory and an overview of currently active areas of research, such as reverse mathematics and algorithmic randomness. Turing machines and partial recursive functions are explored in detail, and vital tools and concepts including coding, uniformity, and diagonalization are described explicitly. From there the material continues with universal machines, the halting problem, parametrization and the recursion theorem, and thence to computability for sets, enumerability, and Turing reduction and degrees. A few more advanced topics round out the book before the chapter on areas of research. The text is designed to be self-contained, with an entire chapter of preliminary material including relations, recursion, induction, and logical and set notation and operators. That background, along with ample explanation, examples, exercises, and suggestions for further reading, make this book ideal for independent study or courses with few prerequisites.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 082187392X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
What can we compute--even with unlimited resources? Is everything within reach? Or are computations necessarily drastically limited, not just in practice, but theoretically? These questions are at the heart of computability theory. The goal of this book is to give the reader a firm grounding in the fundamentals of computability theory and an overview of currently active areas of research, such as reverse mathematics and algorithmic randomness. Turing machines and partial recursive functions are explored in detail, and vital tools and concepts including coding, uniformity, and diagonalization are described explicitly. From there the material continues with universal machines, the halting problem, parametrization and the recursion theorem, and thence to computability for sets, enumerability, and Turing reduction and degrees. A few more advanced topics round out the book before the chapter on areas of research. The text is designed to be self-contained, with an entire chapter of preliminary material including relations, recursion, induction, and logical and set notation and operators. That background, along with ample explanation, examples, exercises, and suggestions for further reading, make this book ideal for independent study or courses with few prerequisites.
Handbook of Computability Theory
Author: E.R. Griffor
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080533043
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
The chapters of this volume all have their own level of presentation. The topics have been chosen based on the active research interest associated with them. Since the interest in some topics is older than that in others, some presentations contain fundamental definitions and basic results while others relate very little of the elementary theory behind them and aim directly toward an exposition of advanced results. Presentations of the latter sort are in some cases restricted to a short survey of recent results (due to the complexity of the methods and proofs themselves). Hence the variation in level of presentation from chapter to chapter only reflects the conceptual situation itself. One example of this is the collective efforts to develop an acceptable theory of computation on the real numbers. The last two decades has seen at least two new definitions of effective operations on the real numbers.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080533043
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
The chapters of this volume all have their own level of presentation. The topics have been chosen based on the active research interest associated with them. Since the interest in some topics is older than that in others, some presentations contain fundamental definitions and basic results while others relate very little of the elementary theory behind them and aim directly toward an exposition of advanced results. Presentations of the latter sort are in some cases restricted to a short survey of recent results (due to the complexity of the methods and proofs themselves). Hence the variation in level of presentation from chapter to chapter only reflects the conceptual situation itself. One example of this is the collective efforts to develop an acceptable theory of computation on the real numbers. The last two decades has seen at least two new definitions of effective operations on the real numbers.