1st Edition

Reverse Mathematics 2001 Lecture Notes in Logic 21

Edited By Stephen G. Ross Copyright 2005
    416 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    Reverse Mathematics is a program of research in the foundations of mathematics, motivated by the foundational questions of what are appropriate axioms for mathematics, and what are the logical strengths of particular axioms and particular theorems. The book contains 24 original papers by leading researchers. These articles exhibit the exciting recent developments in reverse mathematics and subsystems of second order arithmetic.

    1. Possible ra-diagrams of models of arithmetic 2. Weak theories of nonstandard arithmetic and analysis 3. Notions of compactness in weak subsystems of second order arithmetic 4. Proof-theoretic strength of the stable marriage theorem and other problems 5. Free sets and reverse mathematics 6. Interpreting arithmetic in the r.e. degrees under Z4-induction 7. Reverse mathematics, Archimedean classes, and Hahn’s Theorem 8. The Baire category theorem over a feasible base theory 9. Basic applications of weak Konig’s lemma in feasible analysis 10. Maximal nonfinitely generated subalgebras 11. Metamathematics of comparability 12. A note on compactness of countable sets 13. A survey of the reverse mathematics of ordinal arithmetic 14. Reverse mathematics and ordinal suprem 15. Did Cantor need set theory? 16. Models of arithmetic: Quantifiers and complexity 17. Higher order reverse mathematics 18. Arithmetic saturation 19. WQO and BQO theory in subsystems of second order arithmetic 20. Reverse mathematics and graph coloring: Eliminating diagonalization 21. Undecidable theories and reverse mathematics 22. II1 sets and models of WKLo 23. Manipulating the reals in RCA0 24. Reverse mathematics and weak systems of 0-1 strings for feasible analysis

    Biography

    Stephen G. Ross