Raphael

1953 · réf. 00008196 — Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good or better. Slim 8vo. 5 viii-xi 3 3-98 2 pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel. Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer E. W. Beth and A. Heyting. Several publishers advertisements and publisher's postcards laid in. Part of the long-running Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics series and one of the earliest volumes in the series. Risse Logica II 271; Slater 918. Tarski is undeniably one of the greatest logicians in history and made significant groundbreaking contributions in mathematics and logic during the the twentieth century. An attractive copy of this book collecting a number of early and important undecidability results demonstrating both the direct and indirect methods of proving a theory is undecidable and providing elegant and powerful general methods for establishing these kinds of results. Dust jacket with toning to the spine panel and a few traces of wear to the extremities. North-Holland Publishing Company hardcover