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Author: David Marker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0387227342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssumes only a familiarity with algebra at the beginning graduate level; Stresses applications to algebra; Illustrates several of the ways Model Theory can be a useful tool in analyzing classical mathematical structures
Author: Jonathan Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1316732398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModel theory begins with an audacious idea: to consider statements about mathematical structures as mathematical objects of study in their own right. While inherently important as a tool of mathematical logic, it also enjoys connections to and applications in diverse branches of mathematics, including algebra, number theory and analysis. Despite this, traditional introductions to model theory assume a graduate-level background of the reader. In this innovative textbook, Jonathan Kirby brings model theory to an undergraduate audience. The highlights of basic model theory are illustrated through examples from specific structures familiar from undergraduate mathematics, paying particular attention to definable sets throughout. With numerous exercises of varying difficulty, this is an accessible introduction to model theory and its place in mathematics.
Author: Bruno Poizat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1441986227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated from the French, this book is an introduction to first-order model theory. Starting from scratch, it quickly reaches the essentials, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. It also introduces logic via the study of the models of arithmetic, and it gives complete but accessible exposition of stability theory.
Author: Wilfrid Hodges
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-04-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521587136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an up-to-date textbook of model theory taking the reader from first definitions to Morley's theorem and the elementary parts of stability theory. Besides standard results such as the compactness and omitting types theorems, it also describes various links with algebra, including the Skolem-Tarski method of quantifier elimination, model completeness, automorphism groups and omega-categoricity, ultraproducts, O-minimality and structures of finite Morley rank. The material on back-and-forth equivalences, interpretations and zero-one laws can serve as an introduction to applications of model theory in computer science. Each chapter finishes with a brief commentary on the literature and suggestions for further reading. This book will benefit graduate students with an interest in model theory.
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780720422009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Shelah
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1990-12-06
Total Pages: 741
ISBN-13: 008088024X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this research monograph, the author's work on classification and related topics are presented. This revised edition brings the book up to date with the addition of four new chapters as well as various corrections to the 1978 text.The additional chapters X - XIII present the solution to countable first order T of what the author sees as the main test of the theory. In Chapter X the Dimensional Order Property is introduced and it is shown to be a meaningful dividing line for superstable theories. In Chapter XI there is a proof of the decomposition theorems. Chapter XII is the crux of the matter: there is proof that the negation of the assumption used in Chapter XI implies that in models of T a relation can be defined which orders a large subset of m
Author: Thomas Metzinger
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004-08-20
Total Pages: 903
ISBN-13: 0262263807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.
Author: John T. Baldwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1107189217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the modern transformation of model theory and its effects on the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice.
Author: Alexander Prestel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-21
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1447121767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematical Logic and Model Theory: A Brief Introduction offers a streamlined yet easy-to-read introduction to mathematical logic and basic model theory. It presents, in a self-contained manner, the essential aspects of model theory needed to understand model theoretic algebra. As a profound application of model theory in algebra, the last part of this book develops a complete proof of Ax and Kochen's work on Artin's conjecture about Diophantine properties of p-adic number fields. The character of model theoretic constructions and results differ quite significantly from that commonly found in algebra, by the treatment of formulae as mathematical objects. It is therefore indispensable to first become familiar with the problems and methods of mathematical logic. Therefore, the text is divided into three parts: an introduction into mathematical logic (Chapter 1), model theory (Chapters 2 and 3), and the model theoretic treatment of several algebraic theories (Chapter 4). This book will be of interest to both advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying model theory and its applications to algebra. It may also be used for self-study.
Author: Katrin Tent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 052176324X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise introduction to current topics in model theory, including simple and stable theories.
