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Computability and Randomness by Andre Nies Publisher Comments The interplay between computability and randomness has been an active area of research in recent years, reflected by ample funding in the USA, numerous workshops, and publications on the subject. The complexity and the randomness aspect of a set of... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications #132: Relational Mathematics by Gunther Schmidt Publisher Comments Relational mathematics is to operations research and informatics what numerical mathematics is to engineering: it is intended to help modelling, reasoning, and computing. Its applications are therefore diverse, ranging from psychology, linguistics... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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Universal Logic: An Anthology: From Paul Hertz to Dov Gabbay (Studies in Universal Logic) by Jean-yves (edt) Beziau Publisher Comments A collection of papers from Paul Hertz to Dov Gabbay - through Tarski, Gödel, Kripke - giving a general perspective about logical systems. These papers discuss questions such as the relativity and nature of logic, present tools such as consequence... (read more) Your price: $89.95 New - Trade Paper
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Modal Logic by Patrick Blackburn Publisher Comments This modern, advanced textbook reviews modal logic, a field which caught the attention of computer scientists in the late 1970's. The development is mathematical; prior acquaintance with first-order logic and its semantics is assumed, and familiarity... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Trade Paper
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Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library) by Alfred North Whitehead Publisher Comments An abridged text of Principia Mathematica, suitable for an introductory study of logic.... (read more) Your price: $106.50 New - Trade Paper
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Course in Modern Theory by Katrin Tent Publisher Comments This concise introduction to model theory begins with standard notions and takes the reader through to more advanced topics such as stability, simplicity and Hrushovski constructions. The authors introduce the classic results, as well as more recent... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Ordered Sets an Introduction by Bernd S W Schroder Publisher Comments An introduction to the basic tools of the theory of (partially) ordered sets such as visualization via diagrams, subsets, homomorphisms, important order-theoretical constructions and classes of ordered sets. Using a thematic approach, the author presents... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library) by Rudy Von B Rucker Publisher Comments In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Here Rucker... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach by Daniel J Velleman Publisher Comments This new edition of Dan Velleman's successful textbook contains over 200 new exercises, selected solutions, and an introduction to Proof Designer software.... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introduction to Computer Theory by Daniel I. A. Cohen Publisher Comments This text strikes a good balance between rigor and an intuitive approach to computer theory. Covers all the topics needed by computer scientists with a sometimes humorous approach that reviewers found "refreshing". It is easy to read and the coverage of... (read more) Your price: $131.25 New - Trade Paper
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Mathematical Logic by Stephen Kleene Publisher Comments Undergraduate students with no prior instruction in mathematical logic will benefit from this multi-part text. Part I offers an elementary but thorough overview of mathematical logic of 1st order. Part II introduces some of the newer ideas and the more... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mathematics and Logic by Mark Kac Publisher Comments Fascinating study considers the origins and nature of mathematics, its development and role in the history of scientific thinking, impact of high-speed computers, 20th-century changes in the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Introduction To Probability and Inductive Logic (01 Edition) by Ian Hacking Publisher Comments An introductory textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essays in Radical Empiricism (03 Edition) by James Publisher Comments These 12 pieces display the influential philosopher's preoccupation with ultimate reality and his turn toward a metaphysical system. Originally published in journals between 1904 and 1906, these essays argue in favor of a pluralistic universe. James... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Gri Sellers Review "The reference work every scholar of antebellum America needs."--Gail S. Murray, Rhodes College "The book makes the reader ponder the role of capitalism in a democratic society, providing new ways of looking at a much-interpreted era."--History: Review... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Recursive Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) by R L Goodstein Publisher Comments This graduate-level text by a master in the field builds a function theory of the rational field that combines aspects of classical and intuitionist analysis. Topics include recursive convergence, recursive and relative continuity, recursive and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Accompaniment to Higher Mathematics (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) by George Exner Publisher Comments Designed for students preparing to engage in their first struggles to understand and write proofs and to read mathematics independently, this is well suited as a supplementary text in courses on introductory real analysis, advanced calculus, abstract... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Trade Paper
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How To Solve It 2ND Edition by G Polya Publisher Comments A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Godels Proof Rev Edition by Ernest Nagel Publisher Comments In 1931 Kurt Godel disrupted some of the fundamental assumptions underlying mathematics and logic with the publication of his revolutionary paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems". Ironically, few... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Hardcover
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Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos Publisher Comments Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to... (read more) Your price: $56.75 New - Trade Paper
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