Perspectives on the history of mathematical logic
By: Thomas Drucker, editor.
Contributors: Drucker, Thomas.; American Mathematical Society.
Series: Modern Birkhäuser classics
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780817647681
Subjects: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- History
Description: This volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century. Arising from a special session of the history of logic at an American Mathematical Society meeting, the chapters explore technical innovations, the philosophical consequences of work during the period, and the historical and social context in which the logicians worked. The discussions herein will appeal to mathematical logicians and historians of mathematics, as well as philosophers and historians of science. "…the standard of the articles in Drucker’s book is high and the book can be recommended to anyone interested in the history and development of mathematical logic this century." – Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society "…this is an important book. It exposes the richness of ideas and viewpoints, the difficult and not always direct pathways taken in the development of mathematical logic in the last century, and the various factors which did and continue to affect that development." —Modern Logic "Logicians with a side-interest in the development of their field will enjoy it, and will not find it taxing in either mathematical or historical detail. The human as well as the scientific side of the growth of important ideas and institutions are treated at an expansive level." —Journal of Symbolic Logic
Notes: Most papers given originally at a session at the American Mathematical Society's meeting in Chicago in March 1985.

"Reprint of the 1991 edition"--T. p.

Contains title pages for 2008 ed. and 1991 ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Problem of elimination in the algebra of logic; title: Peirce and the law of distribution; title: First Russell paradox; title: Principia mathematica and the development of automated theorem proving; title: Oswald Veblen and the origins of mathematical logic at Princeton; title: Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, theories of quantification, and proof theory; title: Reception of Gödel's incompleteness theorems; title: Gödel's and some other examples of problem transmutation; title: Development of self-reference : Löb's theorem; title: Unintended interpretations of intuitionistic logic; title: Writing of Introduction to metamathematics; title: In memoriam : Haskell Brooks Curry; title: Work of J. Richard Büchi.