Perspectives on the history of mathematical logic /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Mathematical Society
Other Authors: Drucker, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Birkhäuser, [2008]
Series:Modern Birkhäuser classics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Problem of elimination in the algebra of logic
  • Peirce and the law of distribution
  • First Russell paradox
  • Principia mathematica and the development of automated theorem proving
  • Oswald Veblen and the origins of mathematical logic at Princeton
  • Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, theories of quantification, and proof theory
  • Reception of Gödel's incompleteness theorems
  • Gödel's and some other examples of problem transmutation
  • Development of self-reference : Löb's theorem
  • Unintended interpretations of intuitionistic logic
  • Writing of Introduction to metamathematics
  • In memoriam : Haskell Brooks Curry
  • Work of J. Richard Büchi.