TY - GEN AU - Smullyan,Raymond M. TI - A beginner's guide to mathematical logic T2 - Dover books on mathematics SN - 978-0-486-49237-7 AV - QA9.A1 U1 - 511.3 PY - 2014/// CY - Mineola, N. Y. PB - Dover Publications KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical N1 - Bibliografie p. 263 Index p. 265 N2 - Written by a creative master of mathematical logic, this introductory text combines stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic. Author Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts. He highlights each subject with inventive explanations and unique problems. Smullyan's accessible narrative provides memorable examples of concepts related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, incompleteness theorems, and incompleteness proofs. Additional topics include undecidability, combinatoric logic, and recursion theory. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses, this book will also amuse and enlighten mathematically minded readers-- ER -