Alfred Tarski Life and Logic

Name: Alfred Tarski Life and Logic
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ISBN: 9780521714013

ISBN-10: 052171401X

ISBN-13: 9780521714013

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman

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Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy, linguistics and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacher and zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of all rational thought, a bon-vivant and a womanizer, who played the 'great man' to the hilt. Born in Warsaw in 1901 to Jewish parents, he changed his name and converted to Catholicism, but was never able to obtain a professorship in his home country. A fortuitous trip to the United States at the outbreak of war…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




The Two Tarskis



Independence and University



The Banach-Tarski Paradox, Set Theory, and the Axiom of Choice



Polot! The Polish Attribute



The Completeness and Decidability of Algebra and Geometry



A Wider Sphere of Influence



Truth and Definability



How the "Unity of Science" Saved Tarski's Life



Berkeley Is So Far from Princeton



Building a School



The Publication Campaigns



"Papa Tarski" and His Students



Three Meetings and Two Departures



Logic and Methodology, Center Stage



Heydays



Model Theory and the 1963 Symposium



Around the World



Los Angeles and Berkeley



Algebras of Logic



A Decade of Honors



The Last Times


Authors' Note and Acknowledgments


Tarski's Ph.D. Students


Credits


Polish Pronunciation Guide


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Names