What are some good books on logic and set theory?
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LOGIC
What Is The Name Of This Book? -Smullyan
Explores concepts of modern logic, including Goedel's theorem,
through entertaining puzzles.
Goedel, Escher, Bach -Hofstadter
A popular examination of the concepts of self-reference in logic,
art, and music.
Metalogic -Geoffrey Hunter
A good elementary introduction to the modern theory of logic.
Naive Set Theory, by P. R. Halmos:
To understand the basic reasoning methods underlying nearly all of
mathematics; this book is intended as a simple introduction for
beginning mathematicians. It is remarkably clear, elementary in
presentation, and short (~100-150 pages). It contains
``everything a practicing mathematician needs to know about set
theory; learn it, then forget it.'' Much fundamental knowledge:
sets, functions, equivalence relations and classes, order
relations, axiom of choice, Zorn's lemma, well-ordering principle,
cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers. Probably the single most useful
book for understanding everything else. I would read it even if I
weren't a mathematician, in order to get some insight into
mathematical thinking.
Introduction to Mathematical Logic (3rd Edition)
Elliott Mendelson
Wadsworth and Brooks, Monterey CA, 1987
-- Besides propositional and predicate logic, he covers formal
-- number theory, axiomatic set theory, and computability.
An Introduction to Mathematical Logic: To Truth Through Proof
Peter B. Andrews
Academic Press, Orlando FL, 1986
-- Additional topics here include type theory (i.e. typed
-- lambda calculus) as a useful second-order logic.
Logic and Structure
D. van Dalen
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983
-- A natural deduction approach
Logic for Computer Science: Foundations of Automatic Theorem Proving
Jean H. Gallier
Harper and Row, New York, 1986
-- Uses Gentzen deduction. Also provides a formal basis for
-- resolution. Lots of material. Proofs are quite detailed.
Foundations of Logic Programming (2nd Edition)
J.W. Lloyd
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987
-- Covers the fundamentals of resolution theorem proving.
In article <3936@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> dchinn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Donald
Chinn) writes:
>Anybody have a good suggestion on book(s) on logic.
>I already have Enderton's book, and I would like to read
>another one (just to get a different treatment).
I can heartily recommend "An Introduction to Modal Logic" by
G.E. Hughes and M.J. Creswell. This gives an excellent treatment of
many different modal logics.
-- Pat Place {rutgers,princeton}!petsd!pedsgd!pat