Alfred Tarski: life and logic

by Feferman, Anita Burdman

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Title Statements

Full title :Alfred Tarski : life and logic / Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.
Edition:First paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

Notes

Originally published: 2004.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 425 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521714013, 052171401X
oclc:ocn181069001
LC Classification:QA29.T32
Dewey Decimal:199.438

The two Tarskis -- Independence and university -- Interlude I: The Banach-Tarski paradox, set theory and the axiom of choice -- Polot! The Polish attribute -- Interlude II: The completeness and decidability of algebra and geometry -- A wider sphere of influence -- Interlude III: Truth and definability -- How the 'unity of science' saved Tarski's Life -- Berkeley is so far from Princeton -- Building a school -- Interlude IV: The Publication Campaigns -- 'Papa Tarski' and his students -- Three meetings and two departures -- Logic and methodology, center stage -- Heydays -- Interlude V: Model theory and the 1963 Symposium -- Around the world -- Los Angeles and Berkeley -- Interlude VI: Algebras of logic -- A decade of honors -- The last times.

Subjects

Biographies Biography Logic, Symbolic and mathematical Logicians Logicians -- Biography. -- United States Logiciens -- Biographies. -- États-Unis Logique symbolique et mathématique Tarski, Alfred United States