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Proof Analysis: A Contribution to Hilbert's Last Problem
Contributor(s): Negri, Sara (Author), Von Plato, Jan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107008956     ISBN-13: 9781107008953
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Logic
Dewey: 511.36
LCCN: 2011023026
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" L (1.55 lbs) 278 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This book continues from where the authors' previous book, Structural Proof Theory, ended. It presents an extension of the methods of analysis of proofs in pure logic to elementary axiomatic systems and to what is known as philosophical logic. A self-contained brief introduction to the proof theory of pure logic is included that serves both the mathematically and philosophically oriented reader. The method is built up gradually, with examples drawn from theories of order, lattice theory and elementary geometry. The aim is, in each of the examples, to help the reader grasp the combinatorial behaviour of an axiom system, which typically leads to decidability results. The last part presents, as an application and extension of all that precedes it, a proof-theoretical approach to the Kripke semantics of modal and related logics, with a great number of new results, providing essential reading for mathematical and philosophical logicians.

Contributor Bio(s): Negri, Sara: - Sara Negri is Docent of Logic at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Structural Proof Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2001, with Jan von Plato) and she has also written several research papers on mathematical and philosophical logic.Von Plato, Jan: - Jan von Plato is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Creating Modern Probability (Cambridge University Press, 1994), the co-author (with Sara Negri) of Structural Proof Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and has written several papers on logic and epistemology.
 
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