98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic, no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle, the idea of all the parts of mathematics as systems to be designed on the same sort of plan as that used by Euclid and his Elements, and the discoveries... Read more
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
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Nidditch\, P. H.
