P H Nidditch

The Development of Mathematical Logic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1962. This clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic requires no previous knowledge of logic. It outlines the four lines of thought that have been its roots and goes on to the main theories of De Morgan, Boole, Jevons, Pierce, Frege, Peano, Whitehead, Russell, Post, Hilbert and Goebel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780367426248
• ISBN-10: 0367426242
• Artikelnr.: 69894486

Autorenporträt

Nidditch\, P. H.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Purpose and Language of the Book 2. Aristotle's Syllogistic 3. The Idea
of a Complete, Automatic Language for Reasoning 4. Changes in Algebra and
Geometry, 1825-1900 5. Consistency and Metamathematics 6. Boole's Algebra
of Logic 7. The Algebra of Logic after Boole: Jevons, Peirce and Schroeder
8. Frege's Logic 9. Cantor's Arithmetic of Classes 10. Peano's Logic 11.
Whitehead and Russell's 'Principia Mathematica' 12. Mathematical Logic
after 'Principia Mathematica': Hilbert's Metamathematics