Proof Theory
A selection of papers from the Leeds Proof Theory Programme 1990
Published on 21. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-521-05416-4 (ISBN)
Description
The lecture courses in this work are derived from the SERC 'Logic for IT' Summer School and Conference on Proof Theory held at Leeds University. The contributions come from acknowledged experts and comprise expository and research articles; put together in this book they form an invaluable introduction to proof theory that is aimed at both mathematicians and computer scientists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-05416-4 (9780521054164)
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Content
Preface; Programme of lectures; 1. Basic proof theory S. Wainer and L. Wallen; 2. A short course in ordinal analysis W. Pohlers; 3. Proofs as programs H. Schwichtenberg; 4. A simplified version of local predicativity W. Buchholz; 5. A note on bootstrapping intuitionistic bounded arithmetic S. Buss; 6. Termination orderings and complexity characterisations E. Cichon; 7. Logics for termination and correctness of functional programs, II. Logics of strength PRA S. Feferman; 8. Reflecting the semantics of reflected proof D. Howe; 9. Fragments of Kripke-Platek set theory with infinity M. Rathjen; 10. Provable computable selection functions on abstract structures J. Tucker and J. Zucker.