The Logic of Provability (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521483254)

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 (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. Here it receives its first scientific application since its invention.

Author: George S. Boolos
ISBN-10: 0521483255
ISBN-13: 9780521483254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/1995
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.71d