Overview
- Explores additional important decidability results in this thoroughly updated new edition
- Introduces mathematical logic by analyzing foundational questions on proofs and provability in mathematics
- Highlights the capabilities and limitations of algorithms and proof methods both in mathematics and computer science
- Examines advanced topics, such as linking logic with computability and automata theory, as well as the unique role first-order logic plays in logical systems
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM, volume 291)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- First-order logic
- First-order language
- Gödel’s completeness theorem
- Mathematical provability
- Model theory logic
- Axiom system logic
- Trakhtenbrot’s theorem
- Computability logic
- Herbrand's theorem
- Logic computer science
- Propositional logic
- Second-order logic
- Infinitary languages
- Lindström’s theorem
- Presburger arithmetic
- Weak monadic second order
- Mathematical logic textbook
- Graduate mathematical logic textbook
About this book
This textbook introduces first-order logic and its role in the foundations of mathematics by examining fundamental questions. What is a mathematical proof? How can mathematical proofs be justified? Are there limitations to provability? To what extent can machines carry out mathematical proofs? In answering these questions, this textbook explores the capabilities and limitations of algorithms and proof methods in mathematics and computer science.
The chapters are carefully organized, featuring complete proofs and numerous examples throughout. Beginning with motivating examples, the book goes on to present the syntax and semantics of first-order logic. After providing a sequent calculus for this logic, a Henkin-type proof of the completeness theorem is given. These introductory chapters prepare the reader for the advanced topics that follow, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Trakhtenbrot's undecidability theorem, Lindström's theorems on the maximality of first-order logic, and results linking logic with automata theory. This new edition features many modernizations, as well as two additional important results: The decidability of Presburger arithmetic, and the decidability of the weak monadic theory of the successor function.
Mathematical Logic is ideal for students beginning their studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics. Although the primary audience for this textbook will be graduate students or advanced undergraduates in mathematics or computer science, in fact the book has few formal prerequisites. It demands of the reader only mathematical maturity and experience with basic abstract structures, such as those encountered in discrete mathematics or algebra.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jörg Flum is Professor Emeritus at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Freiburg. His research interests include mathematical logic, finite model theory, and parameterized complexity theory.
Wolfgang Thomas is Professor Emeritus at the Computer Science Department of RWTH Aachen University. His research interests focus on logic in computer science, in particular logical aspects of automata theory.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Logic
Authors: Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Jörg Flum, Wolfgang Thomas
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73839-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73838-9Published: 29 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73841-9Published: 30 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73839-6Published: 28 May 2021
Series ISSN: 0072-5285
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5612
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: IX, 304
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Mathematics of Computing