Logic, Sets, and Recursion

Logic, Sets, and Recursion

Author: Robert L. Causey

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780763737849

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The new Second Edition incorporates a wealth of exercise sets, allowing students to test themselves and review important topics discussed throughout the text."--Jacket.


Recursively Enumerable Sets and Degrees

Recursively Enumerable Sets and Degrees

Author: Robert I. Soare

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1999-11-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9783540152996

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..."The book, written by one of the main researchers on the field, gives a complete account of the theory of r.e. degrees. .... The definitions, results and proofs are always clearly motivated and explained before the formal presentation; the proofs are described with remarkable clarity and conciseness. The book is highly recommended to everyone interested in logic. It also provides a useful background to computer scientists, in particular to theoretical computer scientists." Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Ungarn 1988 ..."The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the main results and to the intricacies of the current theory for the recurseively enumerable sets and degrees. The author has managed to give a coherent exposition of a rather complex and messy area of logic, and with this book degree-theory is far more accessible to students and logicians in other fields than it used to be." Zentralblatt für Mathematik, 623.1988


Higher Recursion Theory

Higher Recursion Theory

Author: Gerald E. Sacks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1107168430

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This almost self-contained introduction to higher recursion theory is essential reading for all researchers in the field.


Recursion Theory

Recursion Theory

Author: Joseph R. Shoenfield

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1351419412

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This volume, which ten years ago appeared as the first in the acclaimed series Lecture Notes in Logic, serves as an introduction to recursion theory. The fundamental concept of recursion makes the idea of computability accessible to a mathematical analysis, thus forming one of the pillars on which modern computer science rests. The clarity and focus of this text have established it as a classic instrument for teaching and self-study that prepares its readers for the study of advanced monographs and the current literature on recursion theory.


Recursion Theory

Recursion Theory

Author: Chi Tat Chong

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 311038129X

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This monograph presents recursion theory from a generalized point of view centered on the computational aspects of definability. A major theme is the study of the structures of degrees arising from two key notions of reducibility, the Turing degrees and the hyperdegrees, using techniques and ideas from recursion theory, hyperarithmetic theory, and descriptive set theory. The emphasis is on the interplay between recursion theory and set theory, anchored on the notion of definability. The monograph covers a number of fundamental results in hyperarithmetic theory as well as some recent results on the structure theory of Turing and hyperdegrees. It also features a chapter on the applications of these investigations to higher randomness.


Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing

Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing

Author: David Makinson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-02-27

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1447125002

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This easy-to-follow textbook introduces the mathematical language, knowledge and problem-solving skills that undergraduates need to study computing. The language is in part qualitative, with concepts such as set, relation, function and recursion/induction; but it is also partly quantitative, with principles of counting and finite probability. Entwined with both are the fundamental notions of logic and their use for representation and proof. Features: teaches finite math as a language for thinking, as much as knowledge and skills to be acquired; uses an intuitive approach with a focus on examples for all general concepts; brings out the interplay between the qualitative and the quantitative in all areas covered, particularly in the treatment of recursion and induction; balances carefully the abstract and concrete, principles and proofs, specific facts and general perspectives; includes highlight boxes that raise common queries and clear confusions; provides numerous exercises, with selected solutions.


Computability

Computability

Author: Nigel Cutland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-06-19

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521294652

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What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function - a function whose values can be calculated in an automatic way.


An Introduction to Mathematical Logic

An Introduction to Mathematical Logic

Author: Richard E. Hodel

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0486497852

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This comprehensive overview ofmathematical logic is designedprimarily for advanced undergraduatesand graduate studentsof mathematics. The treatmentalso contains much of interest toadvanced students in computerscience and philosophy. Topics include propositional logic;first-order languages and logic; incompleteness, undecidability,and indefinability; recursive functions; computability;and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem.Reprint of the PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1995edition.


Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations

Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations

Author: Moshe Machover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-05-23

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521479981

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This is an introduction to set theory and logic that starts completely from scratch. The text is accompanied by many methodological remarks and explanations. A rigorous axiomatic presentation of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is given, demonstrating how the basic concepts of mathematics have apparently been reduced to set theory. This is followed by a presentation of propositional and first-order logic. Concepts and results of recursion theory are explained in intuitive terms, and the author proves and explains the limitative results of Skolem, Tarski, Church and Gödel (the celebrated incompleteness theorems). For students of mathematics or philosophy this book provides an excellent introduction to logic and set theory.