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MEMOIRS OF A PROOF THEORIST
Gödel and Other Logicians

by Mariko Yasugi (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan) & Nicholas Passell (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA)

This volume is a translation of the book Gödel, written in Japanese by Gaisi Takeuti, a distinguished proof theorist. The core of the book comprises a memoir of K Gödel, Takeuti's personal recollections, and his interpretation of Gödel's attitudes towards mathematical logic. It also contains Takeuti's recollection of association with some other famous logicians. Everything in the book is original, as the author adheres to his own experiences and interpretations. There is also an article on Hilbert's second problem as well as on the author's fundamental conjecture about second order logic.


Contents:

  • On Gödel
  • Work of Paul Bernays and Kurt Gödel
  • Hilbert and Gödel
  • Short Biographies of Logicians
  • Set Theory and Related Topics
  • From Hilbert to Gödel
  • Axioms of Arithmetic and Consistency — The Second Problem of Hilbert
  • A Report from Gödel '96
  • Having Read " Gödel Remembered"
  • A Tribute to the Memory of Professor Gödel'
  • Appendices:
  • On Gödel's Continuum Hypothesis
  • Birth of Second Order Proof Theory by the Fundamental Conjecture on GLC


Readership: Those interested in mathematics, especially logic or the history of mathematics.

156pp Pub. date: Feb 2003
ISBN 978-981-238-279-5
981-238-279-8
US$34 / £25


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