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A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 25 July 2014
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9780486492377
  • Stock: 25 in stock
  • Size: 156x235 mm
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: £20.99
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic

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by Raymond M. Smullyan (Author)

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Book Description

Combining stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic, this new textbook for first courses in mathematical logic was written by the subject's creative master. Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts with creative explanations and unique problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, recursion theory, and other topics.

About the Author

About Raymond M. Smullyan

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he is also a concert pianist and a magician. He is the author of over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.



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