Diamond: A Paradox Logic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810228507)

This book is about "diamond", a logic of paradox. In diamond, a statement can be true yet false; an "imaginary" state, midway between being and non-being. Diamond's imaginary values solve many logical paradoxes unsolvable in two-valued boolean logic. Diamond is a new way to solve the dilemmas of higher mathematics. In this volume, paradoxes by Russell, Cantor, Berry and Zeno are all resolved. This book consists of two sections: Elementary; which covers the classic paradoxes of mathematical logic and shows how they can be resolved in this new system; and Advanced, which relates diamond to Boolean logic, three-valued logic, Gödelian meta-mathematics and dilemma games.

Author: Nathaniel S. Hellerstein
ISBN-10: 9810228503
ISBN-13: 9789810228507
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 01/04/1997
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.34w x 0.77d