The Logic of Provability (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Boolos, George S
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	04/28/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. Here it receives its first scientific application since its invention.