Logic is sometimes called the foundation of mathematics: the logician studies the kinds of reasoning used in the individual steps of a proof. Alonzo Church was a pioneer in the field of mathematical logic, whose contributions to number theory and the theories of algorithms and computability laid the theoretical foundations of computer science. His first Princeton book, The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion (1941), established an invaluable tool that computer scientists still use today. Even beyond the accomplishment of that ...
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Logic is sometimes called the foundation of mathematics: the logician studies the kinds of reasoning used in the individual steps of a proof. Alonzo Church was a pioneer in the field of mathematical logic, whose contributions to number theory and the theories of algorithms and computability laid the theoretical foundations of computer science. His first Princeton book, The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion (1941), established an invaluable tool that computer scientists still use today. Even beyond the accomplishment of that book, however, his second Princeton book, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, defined its subject for a generation. Originally published in Princeton's Annals of Mathematics Studies series, this book was revised in 1956 and reprinted a third time, in 1996, in the Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics series. Although new results in mathematical logic have been developed and other textbooks have been published, it remains, sixty years later, a basic source for understanding formal logic. Church was one of the principal founders of the Association for Symbolic Logic; he founded the Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1936 and remained an editor until 1979 At his death in 1995, Church was still regarded as the greatest mathematical logician in the world.
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Good. No Jacket. Volume I ONLY. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though there is some light foxing along the top edge of the pages. The pages are wrinkled along the bottom edge, possibly from damp though there is no stain. Binding is sturdy. Covers show some light wear around the corners and at the head and base of the spine. No dust jacket. 378pp.
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Good. NO DUST JACKET. Size: 6x0x8; This book has some highlight, underline, writing but still in good condition in general, no lost page, no tear. NO DUST JACKET.
written by a world expert in 1944 (revised in 1951) it is still a good introduction to first order mathematical logic with a detailed introduction to its place in languages of mathematical notation and inference rules .I found a very good price for a used copy and couldn't pass it up. By now there are of course many other sources .This one is supposed to assume less set theory then others .
