Logic from Russell to Church /

This volume is number five in the eleven volume Handbook of the History of Logic. It covers the first fifty years of the development of mathematical logic in the twentieth century, and concentrates on the achievements of the great names of the period; Russell, Post, Go del, Tarski, Church, and the l...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Gabbay, Dov M., 1945- (Editor); Woods, John (John Hayden) (Editor)
Published: North Holland,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam :
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbook of the History of Logic ; 5
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/18745857/5
Summary: This volume is number five in the eleven volume Handbook of the History of Logic. It covers the first fifty years of the development of mathematical logic in the twentieth century, and concentrates on the achievements of the great names of the period; Russell, Post, Go del, Tarski, Church, and the like. This was the period in which mathematical logic gave mature expression to its four main parts ; set theory, model theory, proof theory and recursion theory. Collectively this work ranks as one of the greatest achievements of our intellectual history. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 1056 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444516206
0444516204
9780080885476
0080885470
Index Number: BC15
CLC: B81-09
Contents: Russell's Logic / (Andrew D. Irvine) -- Logic for Meinongian Object Theory Semantics / (Dale Jacquette) -- The Logic of Brouwer and Heyting / (Joan Rand Moschovakis) -- Thoralf Albert Skolem / (Jens Erik Fenstad and Hao Wang) -- The Logic of the Tractatus / (Michael Potter) -- Lesniewski's Logic / (Peter Simons) -- Hibert's Proof Theory / (Wilfried Sieg) -- Hilbert's Epsilon Calculus and its Successors / (Hartly Slater) -- Go del's Logic / (Mark van Atten and Juliette Kennedy) -- Tarski's Logic / (Keith Simmons) -- Emil Post / (Alasdair Urquhart) -- Gentzen's Logic / (Jan von Plato) -- Lambda-calculus and Combinators in the 20th Century / (Felice Cardone and J. Roger Hindley) -- The Logic of Church and Curry / (Jonathan P. Seldin) -- Paradoxes, Self-reference and Truth in the Twentieth Century / (Andrea Cantini).