A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic

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A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic

A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic

4.09 (437 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Combining stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic, this new textbook for first courses in mathematical logic was written by the subject's creative master. Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts with creative explanations and unique problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, recursion theory, and other topics.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780486492377
ISBN10 0486492370
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 425 g
Product Dimensions 156 x 235 x 14 mm
Publisher / Reseller Dover Publications Inc.
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he is also a concert pianist and a magician. He is the author of over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.

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