Computability: Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of Mathematics

by Richard L. Epstein and Walter A Carnielli

Book Overview

The classic presentation of the theory of computable functions in the context of the foundations of mathematics. Part I motivates the study of computability with discussions and readings about the crisis in the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century, while presenting the basic ideas of whole number, function, proof, and real number. Part II starts with readings from Turing and Post leading to the formal theory of recursive functions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098155072X
• ISBN13: 9780981550725
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary