A short introduction to intuitionistic logic
By: Grigori Mints.
Series: University series in mathematics; University series in mathematics (Plenum Press)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Intuitionistic mathematics.
Description: "Intuitionistic logic is presented here as part of familiar classical logic which allows mechanical extraction of programs from proofs. To make the material more accessible, basic techniques are presented first for propositional logic; Part II contains extensions to predicate logic. This material provides an introduction and a safe background for reading research literature in logic and computer science as well as advanced monographs.

Readers are assumed to be familiar with basic notions of first order logic.".

"One device for making this book short was inventing new proofs of several theorems. The presentation is based on natural deduction. The topics include programming interpretation of intutionistic logic by simply typed lambda-calculus (Curry-Howard isomorphism), negative translation of classical into intuitionistic logic, normalization of natural deductions, applications to category theory, Kripke models, algebraic and topological semantics, proof-search methods, and interpolation theorem.

The text developed from material for several courses taught at Stanford University in 1992-1999."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.