Logic and Structure von Dirk van Dalen | ISBN 9783662029626

Logic and Structure

von Dirk van Dalen
Buchcover Logic and Structure | Dirk van Dalen | EAN 9783662029626 | ISBN 3-662-02962-6 | ISBN 978-3-662-02962-6

From the reviews of the fourth edition:

„This book teaches logic to mathematicians in just the way I would have wished. … Beginning with the propositional calculus by means of truth-tables, i. e. the semantics, it proceeds to the syntactics in the form of Gentzen’s natural deduction. … this fourth edition has a long final chapter added, on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. … The chapter follows traditional lines but preserves the excellent quality of the earlier chapters. This is a delightful textbook, with plenty of examples for the reader.“ (C. W. Kilmister, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 89(515), 2005)

„This is the fourth edition of van Dalen’s classic textbook on logic in the popular ‘Universitext’ -series. … this book explains clearly all aspects of logic which a novice in this matter should learn by heart. … Reading this book was a real delight. A lot of the fun was in the exercises … heartily recommend this excellent textbook; … Current students may have little interest in formal mathematics … the problem will solve itself when they all have a copy on their personal bookshelf.“ (Pieter Audenaert, Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, Vol. 12 (3), 2005)

Logic and Structure

von Dirk van Dalen
From the reviews: "A good textbook can improve a lecture course enormously, especially when the material of the lecture includes many technical details. Van Dalen's book, the success and popularity of which may be suspected from this steady interest in it, contains a thorough introduction to elementary classical logic in a relaxed way, suitable for mathematics students who just want to get to know logic. The presentation always points out the connections of logic to other parts of mathematics. The reader immediately see the logic is „just another branch of mathematics“ and not something more sacred." Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Hungary