Preface
1: Prelude
2: Informal natural deduction
3: Propositional logic
4: First interlude: Wason's Selection Task
5: Quantifier-free logic
6: Second interlude: The Linda Problem
7: First-order logic
8: Postlude
A: The natural deduction rules
B: Denotational semantics
C: Solutions to some exercises
Index
Ian Chiswell acheived a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1973
on the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on trees. After three
years as a temporary lecturer at the University of Birmingham he
moved back to Queen Mary, University of London in 1976. His
teaching experience dates back to 1968 when he was a teaching
fellow at the University of Michigan. He spent the academic year
1972-73 in Germany at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. He has
published a monograph
on lamda-trees, which are generalisations of ordinary trees. His
work has connections with mathematical logic, mainly via
non-standard free groups. Wilfrid Hodges achieved his DPhil at
Oxford in 1970
for a thesis in model theory (mathematical logic). He has taught
mathematics at London University for nearly forty years, first at
Bedford College and then at Queen Mary, and also taught for
visiting years in Los Angeles and Boulder (USA). Besides this book,
he has four other textbooks of logic in print, at levels ranging
from popular to research. He has served as president of the British
Logic Colloquium and the European Association for Logic, Language
and Information, and as
vice-president of the London Mathematical Society.
Mathematical Logic is crisply written and is a pleasure to read...Chiswell and Hodges' book is at the very top of the reading list. Michael Berg, MAA Online The text is clearly laid out and written in an easy-to-read free-flowing style. Times Higher Education Supplement
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