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- Is devoted entirely to Martin Davis, an eminent logician
- Collects testimonials on Davis’ significant contributions to the field of logic
- Testifies to the far-reaching influence of Davis’ work and vision
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic (OCTR, volume 10)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a set of historical recollections on the work of Martin Davis and his role in advancing our understanding of the connections between logic, computing, and unsolvability. The individual contributions touch on most of the core aspects of Davis’ work and set it in a contemporary context. They analyse, discuss and develop many of the ideas and concepts that Davis put forward, including such issues as contemporary satisfiability solvers, essential unification, quantum computing and generalisations of Hilbert’s tenth problem.
The book starts out with a scientific autobiography by Davis, and ends with his responses to comments included in the contributions. In addition, it includes two previously unpublished original historical papers in which Davis and Putnam investigate the decidable and the undecidable side of Logic, as well as a full bibliography of Davis’ work. As a whole, this book shows how Davis’ scientific work lies at the intersection of computability,theoretical computer science, foundations of mathematics, and philosophy, and draws its unifying vision from his deep involvement in Logic.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Eugenio G. Omodeo
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University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Alberto Policriti
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations
Editors: Eugenio G. Omodeo, Alberto Policriti
Series Title: Outstanding Contributions to Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41842-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41841-4Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82443-7Published: 03 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41842-1Published: 27 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-2758
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2766
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 438
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations