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1971014875New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1971. This is a DEDICATION COPY -- INSCRIBED to David Rubinstein to whom the book is dedicated and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the dedication page. The printed dedication in the book is to David Rubinstein as well as two more of the author's mentors; i.e. Carl A. Eisdorfer and John H. Wilms. Below the printed dedication the author has written: "To David Rubinstein -- More evidence to disconfirm the myth -- Gratefully Paul." Very Good condition. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with complete number row 87654321 on the copyright page. Bound in the original black cloth lettered in gold on the spine and front cover. From the preface: "This book is addressed to philosophers and students of philosophy who want to use formal logic as a tool of their trade. It presupposes only the familiarity with truth-functions and quantifiers that is gained in a one-semester introduction to symbolic logic. It is designed to present in as clear and straightforward a way as possible a set of techniques for manipulating formal systems of modal logic and the related interpretative devices and for developing further systems of modal logic to meet specific contextual needs.". INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. xiv 335pp. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Hardcover
1936006436New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1936. Very Good condition. A clean tight copy. Hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Publisher's "Review Copy" ink stamp on front endpaper which indicates the book was to be published Feb 11 1937 at $3.75. From the INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD series. Bound in the original dark green cloth lettered in gold on the spine. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. From Introduction: "In the course of this study I shall expound and criticize the theories and methods of Logical Positivism in an order of presentation which seems best suited to represent them with utmost fairness. I shall present the logical foundation of Positivism first. Then the applications of the method of analysis to mathematics and natural science will follow. Next I shall treat of the elimination of metaphysics and the consequence of this. All of this will be preparatory to the consideration of a specific case of positivistic analysis which presents a theory of knowledge free from metaphysics. This is the LOGISCHER AUFBAU DER WELT of Rudolf Carnap. Then I shall present the doctrine of Physicalism as a separate philosophical system. The study will be concluded by a theory of language which seems to me to overcome the difficulties of both Logical Positivism and Radical Physicalism." . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. vii 311pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Harcourt, Brace and Company Hardcover
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1997x-0792345606Kluwer Academic Pub 1997. Hardcover. New. 232 pages. 10.00x6.75x0.75 inches. Kluwer Academic Pub hardcover
1967009065Bari Italy: Editori Laterza 1967. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. 13.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm tall. A clean tight copy. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. Pages are unmarked. Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna #638. Bound in the original white wrappers with a black paper spine. The lightly rubbed Dust Jacket is white printed in blue and black. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 324pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Editori Laterza Paperback
1997x-3540629637Springer Verlag 1997. Hardcover. New. 394 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
1978006415Torino Italy: Societa Editrice Internazionale 1978. Near Fine condition. Bright shiny clean and tight. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original off-white wraps. 13 cm wide by 19 cm tall. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. However penciled on the title page are the words "personal copy rec April 1979" in what we believe is Professor's Church's hand. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 368pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Societa Editrice Internazionale Paperback
1967006416Bari Italy: Editori Laterza 1967. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. 13.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm tall. A clean tight copy. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. Pages are unmarked. Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna #638. Bound in the original white wraps with a black spine. The Dust Jacket is white printed in blue and black. No chips. No tears. Complete with printed errata-corrige sheet tipped-in. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 324pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Editori Laterza Paperback
1998x-9810234325World Scientific Pub Co Inc 1998. Paperback. New. 356 pages. 12.28x8.96x0.78 inches. World Scientific Pub Co Inc paperback
1978006413Darmstadt Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1978. Near Fine condition. Clean square and tight. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Among this collection's 21 essays are 5 by Willard van Orman Quine and 3 by Alonzo Church i.e. Propositionen und Satze 1956; Ontologische Voraussetzungen 1958; and Intensionale Semantik 1951. Bound in the original gray cloth lettered in red and in gold over a red spine panel. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Still the book contains 3 of his essays -- translated into German and printed here with his permission as stated in the acknowledgments. So it seems likely that the publisher sent a copy to him as a courtesy; and we believe this is almost certainly that copy. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No Jacket. vi 372pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Hardcover
1999x-0262541041Mit Pr 1999. Paperback. New. 450 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.50 inches. Mit Pr paperback
1996__3110148293Walter De Gruyter Inc 1996. Hardcover. New. 413 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. Walter De Gruyter Inc hardcover
1949023567Lisboa: Universidade de Lisboa 1949. Inscribed: "To Prof. Alonzo Church with admiration and friendship and thanks for his Review of my "Introduction a Logica" in the Journal of Symbolic Logic.SIGNED by the author Lisbon 1949." Good condition. Paper clip mark on the title page from attached index card written in the hand of Alonzo Church. Separata da Revista da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Tomo XIV - 2 Serie No 3. From Wikipedia: "For Edmundo Curvelo forty years of life and ten publications were enough to mark the history of Portuguese thought; in general through work in the field of logic in particular through the endeavor to logify psychology. According to him Psychology would only gain the status of Science to the extent that it was allowed to logify because for Professor Abrantes science is a logical construction. To logify any subject is to discover the stable structures that have the language that can represent that any subject faithfully. The work he built on logic is all the more remarkable as it is known that the area of logic was not in the history of Portuguese thought an area of great development. Not to underline that at the time it was the occupation of very few. In his research area he fought the current. Professor Manuel Curado 2001 pointedly points out in the History of Portuguese Philosophical Thought that Edmundo Curvelo was the best Portuguese logician of the twentieth century and beyond: For better and worse Curvelo is the logic of the twentieth century. Portugal. Curado 2001: 345. Whether before or after nothing more significant is in the history of Portuguese twentieth-century logic than the work of the Alentejo teacher." This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. INSCRIBED & SIGNED. 1949 edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 90pp. Universidade de Lisboa? Paperback
1955009116Chartres: Imprimerie Durand 1955. Very Good condition. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. A solid copy. Bound in the original paper wrappers a little age-toned and lightly chipped at the spine ends. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Relation theory. Ph.D. thèses présentées a la faculté des sciences de l'université de Paris. soutenues le 29 octobre 1953. Text in French with English summary. This work was reviewed by Paul Dedecker in Alonzo Church's JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC Volume 22 Issue 4 1957 371-372. The French mathematical logician Roland Fraïssé 1920-2008 received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1953. In this his thesis Fraïssé devised a method of determining elementary equivalence. Using a back-and-forth methodology he determined whether two model-theoretic structures were elementarily equivalent. It was later formulated as the Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis the Church-Turing Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. Church was first to demonstrate that David Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem was unsolvable. It was Church who coined the phrase "Turing machine" for Alan Turing's hypothetical universal computing machine. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. . First Edition Thus première édition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 155pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Imprimerie Durand Paperback
2000x-3540678999Springer Verlag 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 856 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
1963009072México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1963. With original mailing label addressed to Alonzo Church -- the greatest American logician of the 20th century. Very Good condition. 18 cm x 24 cm. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Philosophy. 3 volumes only of 7: a Comunicaciones sobre el tema I: EL PROBLEMA DEL HOMBRE / Le problème de l'homme / Problem of man Volumen II. b Comunicaciones sobre el tema II: LA CRÍTICA DE LA ÉPOCA / Critique de l'époque / The criticism of our time Volumen IV. c COMUNICACIONES INTRODUCTORIAS / Rapports pour les séances plénières / Papers to be discussed in plenary sessions. All three volumes are uniformly bound in the original cream-color wrappers. These volumes are among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately they do not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. However laid-in one of the volumes is the original mailing label addressed to Alonzo Church at Princeton. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Oversize Softcover heavy. Very Good condition. 3 large volumes. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Paperback
1947023624Lisboa Portugal: Publicacoes Europa-America 1947. Inscribed: "March 12th To Prof. Alonzo Church with the compliments of illegible signature NOT Curvelo." Good condition. Discrete Logical Multiplicities. This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. One page does have brief margin notes that appear to be in his hand. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. INSCRIBED to Prof. Alonzo Church. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 159pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Publicacoes Europa-America Paperback
1936024710Bruxelles Belgium: Privately Published 1936. Good condition. Chip to corner of front cover. Author's business card laid in with "Hommage de l'auteur" handwritten in ink. 102 pages mimeographed on rectos only blank versos. Bound in stiff card wraps with a beige cloth spine. The author's name is hand inked on the spine. Feys was a frequent contributor of reviews to JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Oversize Softcover. 8.25" wide by 10.75" tall. This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Oversize Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. vii 102 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Privately Published? Paperback
1959009067Neuchatel Suisse: Éditions du Griffon 1959. Very Good condition. 16 cm wide by 23.5 cm tall. A solid copy -- clean and tight. The spine is square and flat. One corner of front wrapper has a mild crease. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bibliothèque scientifique no. 34. Festschrift containing 18 papers in various languages by Hao Wang Haskell B. Curry E. W. Beth Wilhelm Ackermann Rudolf Carnap A. A. Fraenkel Kurt Gödel George Kreisel A. Robinson F. Gonseth R. L. Goodstein Hans Hermes et al. Each paper has 3 abstracts -- in English German and French. Bound in the original brown wrappers printed in black and red. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Between 1937 and 1954 Bernays wrote a series of articles published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Among Church's most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 295pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Éditions du Griffon Paperback
1937023618Leipzig Germany: S. Hirzel 1937. Very Good condition. Forschungen zur Logik und zur Grundlegung der exakten Wissenschaften new series no. 1. Reprinted from Deutsche Mathematik vol. 1 1936 pp. 733-777. This was reviewed by C. H. Langford in Alonzo Church's Journal of Symbolic Logic Volume 2 Issue 2 June 1937 p. 94 This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 40pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. S. Hirzel Paperback
1938023614Leipzig Germany: S. Hirzel 1938. Good condition. Forschungen zur Logik und zur Grundlegung der exakten Wissenschaften new series no. 5. This was reviewed by W. V. Quine in Church's Journal of Symbolic Logic Volume 4 Issue 2 1939 87-88. This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. One page does have brief margin notes that appear to be in his hand. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. . First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 24pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. S. Hirzel Paperback
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192846101Berlin Springer 1928. Orig. full cloth. Lower part of spine with loss of cloth. Lower right cornerof titlepage cut away no loss of letters. VIII120 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Die Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenshaften in Einzeldarstellungen Band XXVII. In the years 1917-22 Hilbert gave three seminal courses at the Univeristy og Göttingen on logic and the foundation of mathematics. He received considerable help in preperation and eventual write up of these lectures from Bernays. This material was subsequently reworked by Ackermann into the monograph 'Grundzüge der Theoretischen Logik' the offered item. It containes the first exposition ever of first-order logic and poses the problem of its completeness and the decision problem 'Entscheidungsproblem'. The first of these questions was answered just a year later by Kurt Gödel in his doctorial dissertation 'Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls'. This result is known as Gödel's completeness theorem. Two years later Gödel published his famous 1931 paper 'Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I' in which he showed that a stronger logic capable of modeling arithmetic is either incomplete or inconsistent Gödel's second incompleteness theorem. The later question posed by Hilbert and Ackermann regarding the decision problem was answered in 1936 independantly by Alonzo Church and Allan Turing. Church used his model the lambda-calculus and Turing his machine model to construct undecidable problems and show that the decision problem is unsolvable in first-order logic. These results by Gödel Church and Turing rank amongst the most important contributions to mathematical logic ever. </em> hardcover
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191847987Berkeley University of California Press 1918. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. Stamps on foot of titlepage. VI4064 pp. textfigs. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper. Some pencil underlinings by Jørgensen. <br/><br/><em>First edition of a main textbook in modern symbolic logic and having an interesting provenance as the copy has belonged to the Danish logician Jørgen Jørgensen."Modern interest in modal Logic begins with the work of C.I. Lewis first published in book form in his 'Survey of Symbolic Logic' of 1918. This theory is commonly called the logic of strict implication because it was originally put forward in opposition to an account of implication which Lewis thought mistaken."Kneale and Kneale "The Development of Logic" 1962 p. 548 ff. </em> hardcover
