Classical Mathematical Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic

by Richard L. Epstein, Leslaw W. Szczerba

Overview

In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not only of arithmetic, but also of group theory, field theory, and linear orderings. These lead to the formalization of the real numbers and Euclidean plane geometry. The scope and limitations of modern logic are made clear in these formalizations.


The book provides detailed explanations of all proofs and the insights behind the proofs, as well as detailed and nontrivial examples and problems. The book has more than 550 exercises. It can be used in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses and for self-study and reference.



Classical Mathematical Logic presents a unified treatment of material that until now has been available only by consulting many different books and research articles, written with various notation systems and axiomatizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691123004
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/23/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Richard L. Epstein received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of eleven books, including two others in the series The Semantic Foundations of Logic (Propositional Logics and Predicate Logic), Five Ways of Saying "Therefore," Critical Thinking, and, with Walter Carnielli, Computability. He is head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum in Socorro, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. vii
• Preface, pg. xvii
• Acknowledgments, pg. xix
• Introduction, pg. xxi
• I. Classical Propositional Logic, pg. 1
• II. Abstracting and Axiomatizing Classical Propositional Logic, pg. 27
• III. The Language of Predicate Logic, pg. 53
• IV. The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic, pg. 69
• V. Substitutions and Equivalences, pg. 99
• VI. Equality, pg. 113
• VII. Examples of Formalization, pg. 121
• VIII. Functions, pg. 139
• IX. The Abstraction of Models, pg. 153
• X. Axiomatizing Classical Predicate Logic, pg. 167
• XI. The Number of Objects in the Universe of a Model, pg. 183
• XII. Formalizing Group Theory, pg. 191
• XIII. Linear Orderings, pg. 207
• XIV. Second-Order Classical Predicate Logic, pg. 225
• XV. The Natural Numbers, pg. 263
• XVI. The Integers and Rationals, pg. 291
• XVII. The Real Numbers, pg. 303
• XVIII. One-Dimensional Geometry, pg. 331
• XIX. Two-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry, pg. 363
• XX. Translations within Classical Predicate Logic, pg. 403
• XXI. Classical Predicate Logic with Non-Referring Names, pg. 413
• XXII. The Liar Paradox, pg. 437
• XXIII. On Mathematical Logic and Mathematics, pg. 461
• Appendix: The Completeness of Classical Predicate Logic Proved by Gödel’s Method, pg. 465
• Summary of Formal Systems, pg. 475
• Bibliography, pg. 487
• Index of Notation, pg. 495
• Index, pg. 499

Editorial Reviews

"[Richard Epstein] never gives only the technical side of the matter, but...always offers intuitive motivations and explains basic decisions which constitute the whole approach, and which build a bridge to the students' experiences, with natural language as well as with standard 'elementary' mathematics. The book is a self-contained textbook, requiring as background only some facility in mathematics...This makes the book particularly suitable as a textbook for self-study."—-Siegfried J. Gottwald, Zentralblatt MATH

From the Publisher

[Richard Epstein] never gives only the technical side of the matter, but...always offers intuitive motivations and explains basic decisions which constitute the whole approach, and which build a bridge to the students' experiences, with natural language as well as with standard 'elementary' mathematics. The book is a self-contained textbook, requiring as background only some facility in mathematics...This makes the book particularly suitable as a textbook for self-study.

Zentralblatt MATH - Siegfried J. Gottwald

[Richard Epstein] never gives only the technical side of the matter, but...always offers intuitive motivations and explains basic decisions which constitute the whole approach, and which build a bridge to the students' experiences, with natural language as well as with standard 'elementary' mathematics. The book is a self-contained textbook, requiring as background only some facility in mathematics...This makes the book particularly suitable as a textbook for self-study.
— Siegfried J. Gottwald

Zentralblatt MATH Database

[Richard Epstein] never gives only the technical side of the matter, but...always offers intuitive motivations and explains basic decisions which constitute the whole approach, and which build a bridge to the students' experiences, with natural language as well as with standard 'elementary' mathematics. The book is a self-contained textbook, requiring as background only some facility in mathematics...This makes the book particularly suitable as a textbook for self-study.
— Siegfried J. Gottwald

Zentralblatt MATH