Publication

1999 - Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

98,750 words, Guess

Page Count

395 pages

Physical Format

Electronic resource

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiverecursivefunctio00mura
  • ISBN-109048152984
  • ISBN-109401728666
  • ISBN-139789048152988
  • ISBN-139789401728669
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number851363603
  • Better World Books9789048152988
  • Better World Books9789401728669
  • Open LibraryOL27084889M

Classifications

  • DDC160
  • LCCBC1-199
  • LCCB1-5802

Description

Recursive Functions and Metamathematics deals with problems of the completeness and decidability of theories, using as its main tool the theory of recursive functions. This theory is first introduced and discussed. Then Gödel's incompleteness theorems are presented, together with generalizations, strengthenings, and the decidability theory. The book also considers the historical and philosophical context of these issues and their philosophical and methodological consequences. Recent results and trends have been included, such as undecidable sentences of mathematical content, reverse mathematics. All the main results are presented in detail. The book is self-contained and presupposes only some knowledge of elementary mathematical logic. There is an extensive bibliography. Readership: Scholars and advanced students of logic, mathematics, philosophy of science.

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