Computability and Logic
- 364 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Computability and Logic is a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background. This fifth edition was first published in 2007.
John P. Burgess ist ein Professor für systematische Theologie, dessen Werk sich mit den tiefen Verbindungen zwischen Glauben und Identität befasst. Seine Schriften untersuchen die Wege, auf denen sich religiöse Traditionen und Gemeinschaften in einer sich ständig verändernden Welt neu entdecken und reformieren können. Mit Schwerpunkt auf theologischen und spirituellen Dimensionen sucht er zu verstehen, wie alte Schriften und Überzeugungen im modernen Kontext weiterhin Anklang finden und neue Vitalität bringen können.


Computability and Logic is a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background. This fifth edition was first published in 2007.
This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (CUP, 1979). Modal logic is concerned with the notions of necessity and possibility. What George Boolos does is to show how the concepts, techniques and methods of modal logic shed brilliant light on the most important logical discovery of the twentieth century: the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Godel and the 'self referential' sentences constructed in their proof. The book explores the effects of reinterpreting the notions of necessity and possibility to near probability and consistency. It contains the first application of quantified modal logic to formal probability, and shows the results of applying modal logic to formal provability.