Modal Logic

by Patrick Blackburn, Yde Venema, Maarten de Rijke

Book Overview

This is an advanced 2001 textbook on modal logic, a field which caught the attention of computer scientists in the late 1970s. Researchers in areas ranging from economics to computational linguistics have since realised its worth. The book is for novices and for more experienced readers, with two distinct tracks clearly signposted at the start of each chapter. The development is mathematical; prior acquaintance with first-order logic and its semantics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521527147
• ISBN13: 9780521527149
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"