Computability : computable functions, logic, and the foundations of mathematics

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Computability : computable functions, logic, and the foundations of mathematics

Richard L. Epstein, Walter A. Carnielli

Wadsworth, c2000

2nd ed.

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"With Computability and undecidability--a timeline, the story of the development of computable functions and the undecidability of arithmetic to 1970, Richard L. Epstein."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Epstein and Carnielli, both logicians who have been collaborating on computability theory for two decades, introduce the philosophical aspects of recursion theory and logic. Opening with a discussion of the philosophical foundations of mathematics, and a presentation of the ideas of whole number, f

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